Fwd: Linux Broadcom 5820 Cryptonet Driver Integer Overflow

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:58, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> Maybe now would be a good time to start thinking about moving (in a
> few months maybe) to a kernel tree based on 2.4.26/27pre just to
> reduce the total number of overlapping patches.
> 

This would be a major undertaking. For starters, someone would have to
backport nptl to work with 2.4.26/27, which would not be an easy task...

Besides, it's not FL's mission to evolve the old releases, just to patch
them.

> Currently RedHat (etc) are maintaining kernels based on:
> 
>   RHEL 2.1        2.4.9
>   RHEL 3          2.4.21
> 
> Fedora are maintaining 2.4.22 for fc1 
> 
> and we have 2.4.20 for RH73/80/9 etc.
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense to produce a srpm which would be usable for all
> these systems once fc1 stops being maintained by Fedora?

FL will only have to maintain two when fc1 stops being maintained by RH:
2.4.20 and 2.4.22. 

Marc.