Subject: Re: [vserver] vserver+grsecurity patch
From: Rik Bobbaers <rik@enzoverder.be>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:07:36 +0200

* Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>, 2008-10-10 17:02:02 Fri:
> Natanael Copa wrote:
> > I can only speak for me, but i think 2.6.27 needs a few dot releleases
> > before i consider upgrade. Even 2.6.26 is considered "unstable/testing"
> > for Gentoo hardened.
> >   
> 
> OT, but initially the whole drivers in the kernel thing used to seem
> like a good idea to me.  However, as time goes by I find myself on the
> kernel treadmill, it's the old: got a new motherboard, personally happy
> with kernel 2.6.something_old.fixed, but I need some new driver for the
> hardware from some newer kernel and it's suddenly a game of is it easier
> to backport the driver or upgrade the kernel...
> 
> In comparison on windoze I can usually apply a given driver to large
> variations in OS version.  It would be nice to perhaps see the kernel
> figure out some way to modularise this a bit so that we aren't always on
> a treadmill to new versions just for fairly minor driver updates... 
> Alsa and DVB seem to be good examples of one foot in, one foot out of
> the kernel tree and usually can be updated independently.

this is tampering at kernel level... if you would do similar things to kern32.dll, i
think you'll run into freaky problems... and even tampering with the kernel isn't really
"possible" unless you want to change the binary itself...

just sayin'... ;)

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