[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] stable kernel stuff and grumpy maintainers
Jiri Kosina
jkosina at suse.cz
Mon Jun 18 20:55:23 UTC 2012
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Well, sometimes it's not immediately obvious from the changelog what kind
> > of bug is actually being fixed (and yes, I know that for some of the
> > security fixes this is on purpose :-) ).
> >
> > So, speaking with my SLES kernel maintainer hat on, having some
> > 'categorization' of the bug that is being fixed by a particular -stable
> > patch, would be extremely helpful.
> >
>
> This seems to be going down the rathole that we tried to address with
> the "Impact:" notes in -tip. It didn't work :(
I'd be interested in more background of 'didn't work', to prevent me/us
from reinventing the wheel.
Thanks,
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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