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Re: stable-security kernel updates

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From Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Subject Re: stable-security kernel updates
Date Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:00:03 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:50:34PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Updates for stable-security kernels have been released:
> 
> 	- v3.12.58-security
> 	- v3.14.67-security
> 	- v3.18.31-security
> 	- v4.1.22-security
> 	- v4.4.8-security
> 	- v4.5.2-security

Sasha, regardless the rest of the discussion in this thread, I find
myself confused by the naming above. For me, 3.12.58-something means
"something" on top of 3.12.58. Many (most? all?) forks work like this,
but here it seems that instead it's 3.12 + your selection of fixes
from kernels up to 3.12.58. I guess it would be much less confusing to
call it something like 3.12.0-security58 or something like this (or
maybe simply 3.12.0.58). Some people might be tempted to upgrade from
3.12.40 to 3.12.58-security and will possibly discover some breakage
due to bugs that were fixed between 3.12 and 3.12.40 and which are not
fixed in 3.12.58-security.

Thanks,
willy

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stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-20 22:00 +0200
  Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 08:50 +0200
    Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 09:20 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 13:30 +0200
        Re: stable-security kernel updates Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-04-21 14:40 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:10 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200
    Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 13:20 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 14:10 +0200
        Re: stable-security kernel updates Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-04-21 14:40 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 15:00 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:00 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200
              Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200
              Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:30 +0200
                Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 16:40 +0200
                Re: stable-security kernel updates Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-04-26 01:20 +0200
                Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-26 06:50 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 14:10 +0200
        Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:00 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 17:00 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 18:00 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 21:40 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2016-04-21 14:30 +0200
  Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 15:00 +0200
    Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200

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