Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:59:46 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:56:14PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Martin Mares wrote: > > Do you really think that "People should either use vendor kernels or > > read LKML and be able to gather the fixes from there themselves" is a > > good strategy? > > > Maybe I can make the point another way... > TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. > > Marcelo is a volunteer, and maintaining the 2.4 kernel is not his full > time job. Marcelo isn't beholden to people demanding a kernel release > NOW NOW NOW. If you want that type of support, you have to pay for it.
I know this can sound a bit "the wrong way".
There's another thing though; Marcelo needs to merge the RIGHT fix. And he did merge it; he just hasn't finished releasing -pre6 yet - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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