Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 15:33:05 EST


On 27 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> With all the vendors now shipping 4.2 this seems a bad thing to default
> to the 4,1 interface - especially as the 4.1 server is
>...

Debian 3.0 ships with 4.1 and my personal estimation is that the next
release of Debian will be in 2004 (I'm happy if it will be earlier...).

> o Has security holes that are fixed in 4.2.1 only

The Debian maintainer of XFree86 claims that at least the Xlib problem
doesn't affect 4.1 [1].

> Alan

cu
Adrian

[1] http://people.debian.org/~branden/

-- 

You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because its a police state. Alan Cox

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Sep 30 2002 - 22:00:42 EST