On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:59:14PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:42:16PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > I thought that thread was for the much larger patches, not just this > > > > Makefile change. > > > > > > At the least we'll likely want to also pick up the other stack protector > fixes > > > that went into .25rc if we turn it on in .24 > > > > Hm, that sounds like a new feature :) > > > > I thought the makefile change was just a bugfix in the broken makefile. > > Well, it is. But it'll cause it to enable something that has been broken for > a while. > FWIW, I think having the stack protector reenabled in -stable is a worthwhile > goal, > but only once it's stabilised for a while in the development tree. > > My fear by just reenabling this for -stable is that when distros push out > updates > based on the latest -stable, we'll see more systems like James' problematic > system.
Fair enough, between this worry, and Arjan saying "no way", I've now dropped it :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
