Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:41:38AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Quoting Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>:
> > Are the Debian 2.2.20 images absolutely vanilla kernels?  So what I'd
> > get from a Debian mirror is identical to what I'd get from
> > www.kernel.org?
> 
> No, they're not.  Well, the 2.4 ones aren't, at least.  Debian needs to
> supply (at least) the patches *somewhere* to comply with the GPL.
> 

Ah hah! This is why there are 2.2.20 patches, but no source.
Presumably they are against the vanilla kernel. Any way, I grabbed the
2.2.20 source from testing and built a custom kernel that's half the
size.  (On a 512MB desktop, no biggie.  On my 20MB laptop, this
matters.)

Jeffrey