On Ma, 04 sep 12, 16:36:27, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:22:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 04 sep 12, 16:11:04, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> 1/ Debian stable branches don't receive new kernel releases from the > >> usual repositories but they can be obtained from backports. > >> > >> 2/ Debian stable branches do receive kernel upgrades in form of > >> security fixes and patches. > >> > >> 3/ That said, you'll never find kernel 3.x branch hitting the security > >> repository for Squeeze. > > > > 4/ The stable kernel for Squeeze has received new hardware support in > > form of backported drivers. > > That goes inside the second point :-P > > As I see it, "patches" include several things which can be security fixes > or new code that adds feature enhancements (here enters the kernel > modules that support new devices) or solves stability problems.
Sorry Camaleón, you should know better that on debian-user this doesn't work :p You specifically wrote "security fixes and patches" and there's no way I can read that as "backported drivers". Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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