On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:35:56PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Quite honestly, I don't think we deviate enough from the mainline kernels > enough to warrant such a thing. The main patches we include are the stable > kernel patches, misc fixes backported from linus' git repo, architecture > patches (that don't affect 99% of our users, as 99% of our users are using > x86 or x86_64 kernels), and legacy feature/modularization patches that we're > trying to get rid of. When we upgrade to the latest linus release, we end > up dropping the majority of our patches. Our goal is to get as close to > mainline as possible, so that we're not maintaining a huge set of patches.
Ok fine, so the main reason for a different uname -r from mainline seems to be to allow installing more than one kernel compiled with different options on the same system (or other buildsystem details), right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
