Decision process
Decision process
Posted Sep 30, 2025 13:37 UTC (Tue) by Lionel_Debroux (subscriber, #30014)In reply to: Decision process by pizza
Parent article: Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
Note that things go the other way round as well: security fixes available in Linus' Linux but missing from other kernels because the backporting process didn't occur for some reason (difficulty, interest, etc.).
The older a third-party kernel version is, the more it is likely to be missing both backports for security fixes, and vulnerabilities in code introduced in newer versions but not backported to the given third-party kernel (some vendors perform large amounts of backports to their franken-kernels).
The older a third-party kernel version is, the more it is likely to be missing both backports for security fixes, and vulnerabilities in code introduced in newer versions but not backported to the given third-party kernel (some vendors perform large amounts of backports to their franken-kernels).