Re: [Xen-devel] Stable Release policy?

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > What is the stable release policy going to be is there is a securty
> > hole that a later (than current) kernel fixes?
> >
> > For instance 2.0.5 has 2.6.10, whereas both 2.6.11.2 and 2.6.11 have
> > mentions of security related patches.
>
> You'll find that the vast majority of Linux security patches will apply
> cleanly to one of our arch-xen kernels.

From what I've seen of the new stable patches, they rarely modify 
arch-dependent code.

Have you tried just applying them?  The only problematic changes are ones 
under arch/i386.

Cheers,
Mark

> Now that mainstream Linux has moved over to a point release scheme I
> guess we could modify our build procedure to go looking to see whether
> there are updates available.
> It'll just be a pain on the very rare ocasions where this breaks the
> build.
>
> It's really an issue for whoever is doing the packaging. In the
> not-so-long-term, this will hopefully be an issue for the vendor of your
> favourite distribution rather than us.
>
> Ian
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