Hi folks,
typically, I have been using gentoo-dev-sources as my patchset of choice. Furthermore, I have typically applied several fixes manually on top of the patchset according to my requirements.
Lately however, I have found that the number of fixes I feel that I need to apply takes more time and effort on my part than I can currently afford. Also, I have little interest in patches such as vesafb-tng and the like. No disprespect to the current gentoo-dev-sources maintainer intended mind, he's very talented and is doing a superb job ;)
Anyway, I've decided to use the Debian kernel for the time being as it seems to be more in line with what I want. Incidentally, Andres Solomon (who works on the kernel team) has recently released an his "-as" patchset which is meant to focus on obvious and critical security/bug fixes. For more information on that, see:
* http://kerneltrap.org/node/4768
That particular patchset is intended to be used as a basis for other distros to build their patchsets from and features an extensive number of (pretty good) patches. It is more likely to track very recent security fixes than the Debian tree but might not be quite so well tested.
I prepared ebuilds for both patchsets and decided to share them in the event that they might be useful to anyone else:
* http://www.recruit2recruit.net/kerframil/ebuilds/sys-kernel/
For more information (including patch lists/ChangeLogs) follow the HOMEPAGE links in the ebuild metadata.
Regards,
--Kerin Francis Millar
