Hi Sven, > > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-1.bz2 > > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-2.bz2 > > For this kind of stuff, it is better to work on the source package of > kernel-source. > > try apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.7 and experiment with it.
my point is: when installing a system and thus adding a new kernel, why would i want to install a kernel with patches and settings i don't know? So all i ask for is a policy-refence for the internal kernel-package policy about: - which patches are in (more than just the vanilla kernel) - which hardware is supported - which features are compiled in (like networking etc.) If that can be put on some web page for me to look at, that'd just be terrific. I *DO* understand that putting that into the description is not what you guys want, so ok. Even a pointer to the SVN repository of kernel-source would be ok, if that does list what i search for. This all shall take place *before* moving some 300 MB (binary images, sources, vanilla sources, crawling patch websites etc.) around the net until finally finding the kernel-image i really do want to install (and reading sources and docs and searching bits and pieces in README and TODO files for like 3-4h until i find all info i need to know what went into kernel-source). Maybe with 2.6 there's few patches needed. Maybe however you use a -mm kernel or one of the other near-vanilla-upstream for they have an advantage you think is making them superior. Now all that i want to be able to is inform myself, which piece of software am i getting as kernel-image. Unfortunatelly "KERNEL" is defined in a little fuzzy way around the Linux comunity (like the RH NPTL-enabled kernels are also a distro-kernel). I hope I could make my point clear. It's not about that I question you do a great job with the kernel-images. Just I want to know if the additional patches are for: - just making it compile - adding features that weren't in (like IPsec for 2.4, Vserver, UML with SKAS patch, O(1) for 2.4 kernels etc.) - reducing warnings that are kind of annoying - making install target the Debian-way For some reason I do believe that it's somewhere between #1 and #2. So now which patches went in that are not just eyecandy, but real new features? Is that asking too much, to be allowed to know what you get before you "apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7&&reboot" and find out the hard way? -- Best regards, Kilian
signature.asc
Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil