Re: kernel-sources
Hallo! Du (Henrique de Moraes Holschuh) hast geschrieben:
>> My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to
>> modify the kernelsource from upstream so much, that patches etc. do not
>
>Because the linux vanilla kernel is not always the best choice. Our kernel
>maintainer reads the kernel mailinglist and knows of patches that should
>make it to the kernel ASAP for example.
>
>You will notice that most other distros do the same. RedHat and SuSE
>distribute _heavily_ patched kernels, for example. Debian's is actually
>quite light as far as patches go.
If others do it wrong, that'S no cause taht we should do it too.
My opinion is that Herbert should at last add a string to his patches
which changes the string later shown in 'uname'. (If I remember
correctly, SuSE does this, Alan Cox/Linus also add a string to their
'not official' sources). So everyone can see on a machine running
the Debian-modified kernel, that it's not the official Linus-approved
thing.
>He notes his changes in README.Debian, and most kernel-patch packages will
>work just fine against Xu's patched sources. Those that don't are usually
>easy enough to fix.
Usually, but not always.
Cord
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