On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 13:07, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Another question, if the patch has been added to the Fedora Core / Red Hat > Enterprise Linux development trees then why has it only been applied to the > Red Hat Linux kernels last week? It wasn't realised until the last week or so just how important that fix was. For this reason, it was going to be included in the next errata kernel along with a bunch of other fixes. When it was realised just how important this issue was, a rush release of the last known good kernel (2.4.20-20) plus this fix was put out. > And why wasn't this issue communicated to other distros? It was. None of us realised the importance. There's a lot more "behind the scenes" coordination between distros than most folks realise. > IIuc the patch must have been available since at least the > release of Fedora Core 1. It first appeared upstream at the end of September. Dave
