From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964937AbXBEWeV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:34:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964783AbXBEWeU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:34:20 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:33225 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964937AbXBEWeT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:34:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:33:04 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Michael Krufky Cc: Chris Wright , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Justin Forbes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wedgwood , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , stable@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 00/50] -stable review Message-ID: <20070205223304.GA19793@kroah.com> References: <20070106022753.334962000@sous-sol.org> <45C624D2.9030403@linuxtv.org> <20070205214332.GB18230@kroah.com> <45C7ACAB.6060408@linuxtv.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45C7ACAB.6060408@linuxtv.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:16:11PM -0500, Michael Krufky wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:24:18PM -0500, Michael Krufky wrote: > >> Chris Wright wrote: > >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.2 release. > >>> There are 50 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > >>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > >>> let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and > >>> wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it. > >>> > >>> These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the > >>> Cc: line. If you wish to be a reviewer, please email stable@kernel.org > >>> to add your name to the list. If you want to be off the reviewer list, > >>> also email us. > >>> > >>> Responses should be made by Mon Jan 8 02:30 UTC. > >>> Anything received after that time might be too late. > >> At which point was 2.6.18.y dropped? I thought we were always going to keep > >> the last two stable kernels up-to-date. Have I been wasting my time fwd'ing > >> 2.6.18.y patches? > > > > It was dropped a while ago, sorry. > > > > I'll go through the archives and see if there's enough to do a .18 > > release (and the patches are serious enough to warrent it.) > > Actually, I have a few more -stable patches for both 2.6.18.y and 2.6.19.y, if > you don't mind holding off a day or two (wont have time to prepare these until > tomorrow evening)... One of them is a security fix, that allows a non-root user > to hang the kernel given the correct circumstances. Ok, that's serious enough :) I'll wait for your patches. > Maybe you guys can make some sort of announcement before the -stable kernel is > closed. I know that now that 2.6.20 is released, implicitly 2.6.18.y is > closed... but it's been a long while since the last 2.6.18.y release, so I > wasn't sure if patches were still being accepted. I thought we did at the time we did the last release, but I'll try to remember to highlight it a more prominently next time. thanks, greg k-h