Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

From: James Morris
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 01:19:08 EST


On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> James has had to step back from doing kernel work for a few weeks, so
> I've offered to step up and handle the security patches to get shuttled
> to Linus for merging for a while.
>
> I'll take his git tree on kernel.org and push those to Linus for
> 3.16-rc1, as those look like they have had proper testing in linux-next.
>
> But there only seems to be 14 patches in there. Are there pending
> patches that people have been sending and need to get in besides those?
>

Thanks for stepping up.

I had to take urgent leave and was unable to access email until this week.

We really should have a co-maintainer for the security subsystem -- please
feel free to nominate someone.

There are several good candidates, including Serge, Kees and Paul Moore.


- James
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