OT: Atheros releases free Linux driver for Its 802.11n Devices

John W. Linville linville at redhat.com
Mon Jul 28 17:17:56 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:57:53AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> Note that some discussions on LWN concerning whether kernel bugs with security
> implications were being clearly labelled as such, suggests that the -97
> kernel included security fixes. As such pushing those updates out a bit faster
> may have been justified.

And -86?  And -55?  Seems like there was another as well..

Perhaps we need to do security fixes through a different process,
rather than just rushing-out security fixes on top of whatever is in
HEAD whether it has been tested by users or not...

John
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