Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:40:06PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > I think the effort to do so is better invested elsewhere. As a > > general rule, the kernel team strives to keep the debian-specific > > patches to a minimum. For people without in-depth kernel knowledge > > it's probably best to take the full set of patches and add their > > own (feature- ?) patches on top. > > Actually, the kernel of my dreams is more near to the vanilla > kernel.org kernel, so I'd like to be able to throw out patches that > you need to apply because of your _much_ broader user base.
Well, then you need detailed knowledge about those patches in any case. (If you know you don't use that code, why bother? The patch won't make a difference for you.) > otoh, I would like to run a 2.6.10 kernel _now_ and cannot take the > distribution kernel because it is still stuck in NEW. http://www.acm.rpi.edu/~dilinger/ > It is adviseable to take a snapshot from the Debian kernel svn? You can use the appopriate SVN tag as well if you like. > And, without trolling, I'd like to build my local kernels from sources > that haven't had drivers removed because of non-free licenses. Disable the purge script in the kernel-source source package. Thiemo