Re: [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs

From: Jes Sorensen
Date: Fri Sep 08 2006 - 05:09:21 EST


>>>>> "Arjan" == Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Arjan> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:27 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >
>> If MIPS and parisc don't matter for the stable tree (very possible
>> - there > are no big commercial distributions for them), then
>> dammit, neither should > ia64 and sparc (there are no big
>> commercial distros for them either).
>>
>> Erm, RHEL and SLES both support ia64.

Arjan> but neither use -stable.

And getting a patch into -stable tends to be a really good argument
for a backport into the next vendor kernel :)

Cheers,
Jes
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