> > - Security patches will be accepted into the -stable tree directly from > > the security kernel team, and not go through the normal review cycle. > > Contact the kernel security team for more details on this procedure. > > This also sounds like a bad rule. How come the security team has more > competence to review patches than the subsystem maintainers? I can > see the point of overruling maintainers on security issues when they > are not responsive, but if they are I think the should be still the > main point of contact.
The security team is going to work with the subsystem maintainers, not overrule them. That would be indeed insane. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/