[Devel] Re: [stable] [PATCH] IA64, sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:12:16PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:45:09AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:27:33PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > If MIPS and parisc don't matter for the stable tree (very possible - there 
> > > > are no big commercial distributions for them), then dammit, neither should 
> > > > ia64 and sparc (there are no big commercial distros for them either). 
> > > 
> > > Erm, RHEL and SLES both support ia64.
> > 
> > Yes, but the -stable developers don't build for those arches, that's why
> > it was missed here.
> 
> What's the easiest way to get coverage here?  Sending a parisc
> workstation or server to someone?  Giving accounts to some/all of the
> stable team?  Finding someone who cares about parisc to join the stable
> team?

How about: Someone from that arch trying out the -stable release
canidates to make sure it doesn't break anything on their arches /
favorite machine?

And no, I really don't want a parisc machine here :)

thanks,

greg k-h