Re: how to detect a debian kernel from `uname -r`
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?
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