maximilian attems <m...@stro.at> schrieb: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > >> >> Kernel team, what do you think? Could the patches be merged against >> trunk? Config might still need some reviewing but that can be done once >> people start testing the packages. > > What follows is my personal view, in short what I miss most is an > assessement of the involved cost of this specific "feature" branch. > > first of all merging a patch that deviates from mainline for an > eternety and shows zero interest of upstream merging is not a > good candidate. You get longterm plenty of cost versus allmost > no benefit. I'm quite unsure that this patch benefits Debian.
I disagree, the benefit is substantial. >>From a distant past look it was in fact quite untastefull. > > The second trouble is that I question your understanding of this patch. > (viewing the way you answered waldi's questions). > > Third beside "security" theatre what is gained by it? What you call theatre is likely the most important decision factor for most people running Linux professionally. > Fourth why not invest the time for Wheezy and have finally the mainline > and security backed SELinux ready. This seems like a much better time > investment. SELinux is mostly orthogonal to what grsecurity provides. > Fifth the ninties are over, an upstream that still doesn't use an VSC > seems very untrustworthy. That's silly. If there's anyone who has credible understanding of Linux kernel security then it's Brad and the PAX team. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnik3kng.2mb....@inutil.org