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Kernel.org's road to recoveryKernel.org's road to recoveryPosted Oct 11, 2011 1:10 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Kernel.org's road to recovery by PaXTeam Parent article: Kernel.org's road to recovery
He asked not to indulge in a theater of flagging commits with useless (and probably misleading) comments. That is a very far cry from dishonesty. The contention that such commit messages will make Linux look bad is nonsense, if somebody wants to get data on security problems there are lots of other sources, very much more accurate than self-selected comments on patches.
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Kernel.org's road to recovery Posted Oct 11, 2011 7:36 UTC (Tue) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616) [Link]
> He asked not to indulge in a theater of flagging commits with useless
> (and probably misleading) comments.
no, he didn't *ask* anything. he *declared* that he does *not* want to see greppable words that'd identify a commit as fixing a security bug. no ifs and buts there. in less euphemistic words it's also called a coverup. second, if identifying security fixes was 'useless (and probably misleading)' then 1. why does he still let through such commits sometimes, 2. why does the rest world do this? something doesn't add up here if you theory holds ;).
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