Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian > kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does > debian do any patching or just distribute the official source > unmodified?
Here the README.Debian file accompanying kernel-source-2.4.16: kernel-source for DEBIAN ------------------------ These patches were applied: * ReiserFS umount patch http://www.namesys.com/ * NFS client seekdir patch http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/ These modifications were also made: * Fixed a couple of argument processing bugs in main.c (Eric Delaunay). * Added initrd support for cramfs. * Exported proc_get_inode. * Hacked ide_xlate_1024 to work when IDE is modularised. * Treat files that begin with FD_FILL_BYTE correctly in vfat. * Fixed pegasus_set_multicast lockup. * Reverted startup==1 patch from drivers/net/tulip/21142.c. * Fixed dead lock on shutdown in 8139too. * Allow ECN to be compiled in but disabled. * Removed non-free Keyspan firmware. * Added ioctl defines for cpq (ac patches). * Don't kill page cache entries in set_blocksize. * Added support for nm256xl+ (Mattia Monga). * Fixed handling of HIDs with product strings bug no manufacturer. * Work around tmpfs symlink size bug in mkcramfs. Changes to comments and documentation: * Fixed typos in asm/socket.h. * Fixed a typo in Documentation/sound/VIBRA16 (Carlos Valdivia Yagüe). * Fixed a typo in Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA (Carlos Valdivia Yagüe). * Fixed comment about epochs in arch/alpha/kernel/time.c. Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $Id: README.Debian,v 1.41 2001/11/24 02:34:21 herbert Exp $ Greetings, joachim
