On 04/21/2016 08:56 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:50:34PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Updates for stable-security kernels have been released: >> >> - v3.12.58-security >> - v3.14.67-security >> - v3.18.31-security >> - v4.1.22-security >> - v4.4.8-security >> - v4.5.2-security > > Sasha, regardless the rest of the discussion in this thread, I find > myself confused by the naming above. For me, 3.12.58-something means > "something" on top of 3.12.58. Many (most? all?) forks work like this, > but here it seems that instead it's 3.12 + your selection of fixes > from kernels up to 3.12.58. I guess it would be much less confusing to > call it something like 3.12.0-security58 or something like this (or > maybe simply 3.12.0.58). Some people might be tempted to upgrade from > 3.12.40 to 3.12.58-security and will possibly discover some breakage > due to bugs that were fixed between 3.12 and 3.12.40 and which are not > fixed in 3.12.58-security. That makes sense. I'll change that. Thanks, Sasha -- 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