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

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Arjan" == Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org> writes:

Arjan> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:27 -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.

Arjan> but neither use -stable.

And getting a patch into -stable tends to be a really good argument
for a backport into the next vendor kernel :)

Cheers,
Jes