On 16 Jul 2008 at 3:31, David Miller wrote:it depends on the fix and the context of the code it touches. a one liner in 2.6.26 may not necessarily have to become a 100 line, multi-file fix in 2.6.16. look at 28d838cc4dfea980cb6eda0a7409cbf91889ca74 for an example, that was trivial to backport to many kernel versions before. also, if you can find a commercial distro whose kernel predates even yours (i.e., yours is between mainline and a well maintained commercial one) then you may not actually have such a big problem with backports even for more complex fixes as you can peek at what the commercial guys are doing. in any case, you're answering a different question or i'm failing to see the logical connection between 'irrelevant' and 'laborious'. basically you said now that you don't provide security info because it's labourious to backport fixes, or something like that. i'm afraid there's no such logical connection. you also didn't answer the question about why you should not make the life of people doing the actual backports (paid for, commercial, whatever the trigger word for you is) easier. and how does that imply that you should not mark security fixes as such? remember, we're not discussing how backports are done in the world, but why you're helping them by withholding security information. because if you admit that you're not, then that's one less reason to withhold this info. cheers, PaX Team --
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