Re: What is a Kernel?
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- Subject: Re: What is a Kernel?
- From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 12:16:47 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 8709-Sun05Nov2000121647-0600-srivasta@acm.org>
- In-reply-to: Brian May's message of "14 Oct 2000 09:45:30 +1100"
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Hi,
>>"Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
Brian> However, apparently for that to work, you have to start patching the
Brian> kernel make file and ksym.c (is that file part of the kernel?), with a
Brian> patch that "may not apply cleanly".
ksym.c is in the klogd sources, and it may not be needed
anymore (once I am sure it is not needed, I shall remove it from
FLAVOURS.gz -- I haven't had time to check recently).
Brian> IMHO: For flavours to work properly:
Brian> - ideally it should be integrated in the upstream kernel source.
It is. They call it EXTRAVERSIONS, I believe.
manoj
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