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 -- Cord Beermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Privat) Member of the I-Tea-Business http://i-tea.de/
