On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 04:40:38PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Also, not all fixes are equal. The ones that are the biggest concern > are security fixes.
How do you _know_ which fixes are security fixes? > If you tell me that the kernel has a new exploit > 2x/week then I'll start to wonder when the kernel team started > outsourcing to MS. Most fixes provide no benefit to most users. > Upgrading kernels on Gentoo is not automatic either, especially if you > have an initramfs, complex configuration, modules in outside packages > (nvidia, virtualization, etc), and so on. I'm releasing, on the average, 3 new kernel versions a week, with 100+ patches in them (for different branches.) Sometimes more. Please tell me exactly how you are going to evaluate which fixes I make are security fixes, and you know which to pick and choose from. Trust me, it's a hard problem, people have tried it in the past, and failed horribly :) > It just seems like we should be able to get by without a semiweekly > kernel upgrade on our "stable" branch. You want me to slow down and do releases in larger chunks then? Hah, not a chance... good luck, greg k-h
