Hello Sona, Except what Otavio mentioned(send the Yocto patches to meta-freescale maillist). It will be great if those patches can be sent to kernel upstream(http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/) directly.
Best Regards, Zhenhua > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:meta-freescale- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Otavio Salvador > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 10:17 PM > To: Sona Sarmadi > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] security patches in the Linux kernel > > Hello Sona, > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Sona Sarmadi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My name is Sona Sarmadi and I am responsible for security in Enea Linux. > > Nice to meet you. > > > Our goal is to apply security patches to the Linux kernels in our > distribution, in order to test and make the patches available for our > customers as soon as possible. When we apply a patch, we always build an > image (e.g. for P4080) and run ptest to verify the patch. > > Great. > > > So far we have fixed security patches for chip-vendor-supplied kernels > in our own layer meta-enea, but we would like to change this policy and > apply the security patches directly in the hardware-specific layer, e.g. > meta-fsl-ppc, and upstream them to the layer maintainers. In this way, > others can also get the patch. There are more advantages with fixing the > patches in the hardware-specific layer and upstreaming them compared to > fixing them in our own meta-enea layer. > > > > We are very interested in your maintenance policy and your opinion > about receiving patches from Enea. > > I am very happy to see this initiative from Enea and I look forward to > see more software vendors adopting same strategy. > > I think you can prepare a patch which includes the fixes (security > related or not) and send them. Those are going to be reviewed and applied > accordingly. Regarding the maintenance policy we follow same guidelines > as the Yocto Project but this does not mean we cannot include fixes for > previous branches, if someone send them. > > Tomorrow we'll have our monthly meeting[1] and it'd be good if you could > join us. > > 1. https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2014- > June/008987.html > > Please note that the time has changed and it'll take place at 14:00 GMT. > > Regards, > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 > -- > _______________________________________________ > meta-freescale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
