On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 07:27:39AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hey Willy, > > On 04/21/2016 03:11 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > This illustrates exactly what I suspected would happen because that's the > > same trouble we all face when picking backports for our respective trees > > except that since the selection barrier is much higher here, lots of > > important ones will be missing > > Right. I fully agree that there will be important security commits that'll > get missed, whether because they were missed in the stable selection or > the stable-security selection. > > I'd like to point out again that updating the entire stable tree is the > preferable way to patch against security (and non-security) issues. s/preferable/only/ :) > The > stable-security tree is a best-effort solution to provide a stop-gap in > between said stable tree updates. What are you "stop-gapping" then? The 7-10 days between stable releases? confused, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html