>>> Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> schrieb am 24.03.2022 um 08:12 in Nachricht <yjwz56fp4qgx3...@kroah.com>: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:34:00PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote: >> FWIW, I think Greg was a bit too outspoken calling long maintenance >> attempts 'crazy'; that may have intimidated some. I'm thinking of >> moving distro to one that provides longer term maintenance than my >> present one. Although CIP is a completely different ball game; I hope >> they succeed. > > It is not "crazy" it is "well documented". As someone who has been > doing this work for 20+ years now and sees all of the stable kernel > patches flow by, it's obvious that a distro that does not keep up with > them is insecure by design.
If "newer is better" I'd agree. Sometimes "newer is actually worse". Some new features intended to improve things sometimes actually make things worse. Regards, Ulrich
