> 700K. In one patch. If PAX is available for 2.6.10 by itself, it certainly > hasn't been posted to http://pax.grsecurity.net - that's still showing a 2.6.7 > patch. But even there, that's a single monolithic 280K patch. That's never > going to get merged, simply because *nobody* can review a single patch that > big. > > Now look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/arjan/execshield/. > 4 separate hunks, the biggest is under 7K. Other chunks of similar size > for non-exec stack and NX support are already merged. > > And why were they merged? Because they showed up in 4-8K chunks. > note to readers: I'm still not happy about the split up and want to split this up even further in smaller pieces; the split up there is only a first order split.
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