On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:45:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > However, apparently for that to work, you have to start patching the > kernel make file and ksym.c (is that file part of the kernel?), with a > patch that "may not apply cleanly". > > IMHO: For flavours to work properly: > > - ideally it should be integrated in the upstream kernel source. > Alternatively, in the Debian kernel source. > > - Debian kernel images should be compiled with the flavour "debian". just out of curiosity, why not use the extraversion feild normally used for the pre1,2,3 etc tags, but is unused for final kernel releases? i would not work for a pre kernel very well but for different builds of final kernels it should work fine no? or am i missing something obvious? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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