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Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated



Hi Sven,

> > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-1.bz2
> > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-2.bz2
> 
> For this kind of stuff, it is better to work on the source package of
> kernel-source. 
> 
> try apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.7 and experiment with it.

my point is: when installing a system and thus adding a new kernel, why
would i want to install a kernel with patches and settings i don't know?
So all i ask for is a policy-refence for the internal kernel-package
policy about:
- which patches are in (more than just the vanilla kernel)
- which hardware is supported
- which features are compiled in (like networking etc.)

If that can be put on some web page for me to look at, that'd just be
terrific.
I *DO* understand that putting that into the description is not what you
guys want, so ok. Even a pointer to the SVN repository of kernel-source
would be ok, if that does list what i search for.
This all shall take place *before* moving some 300 MB (binary images,
sources, vanilla sources, crawling patch websites etc.) around the net
until finally finding the kernel-image i really do want to install (and
reading sources and docs and searching bits and pieces in README and
TODO files for like 3-4h until i find all info i need to know what went
into kernel-source).
Maybe with 2.6 there's few patches needed. Maybe however you use a -mm
kernel or one of the other near-vanilla-upstream for they have an
advantage you think is making them superior. Now all that i want to be
able to is inform myself, which piece of software am i getting as
kernel-image. Unfortunatelly "KERNEL" is defined in a little fuzzy way
around the Linux comunity (like the RH NPTL-enabled kernels are also a
distro-kernel). 

I hope I could make my point clear. It's not about that I question you
do a great job with the kernel-images. Just I want to know if the
additional patches are for:
- just making it compile
- adding features that weren't in (like IPsec for 2.4, Vserver, UML with
SKAS patch, O(1) for 2.4 kernels etc.)
- reducing warnings that are kind of annoying
- making install target the Debian-way

For some reason I do believe that it's somewhere between #1 and #2. So
now which patches went in that are not just eyecandy, but real new
features?

Is that asking too much, to be allowed to know what you get before you
"apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7&&reboot" and find out the hard
way?

-- 
Best regards,
 Kilian

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