Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

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* Lee Revell:

>> The point that just escaped you as the motivation for this thread was
>> the availability of security (or other critical) fixes for older
>> kernels. It would all be fine if, say, the fix for CVE-2004-2492 were
>> available for those who find 2.6.8 works for them (the fix went into
>> 2.6.14 BTW), and the concern is the development model isn't fit to
>> accomodate needs like this.
>> 
>
> If you want security fixes backported then you can get a distro kernel.

And these distro kernels appear magically from nowhere?
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