Am 20.10.2014 um 07:06 schrieb Tomas Mozes: > On 2014-10-18 23:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 18.10.2014 um 06:17 schrieb Philip Webb: >>> I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) >>> & noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the beginning. >>> Are we really privileged to have our own place in kernel-land >>> or have these been added by the Gentoo devs ? >>> >> >> and that is why I don't use gentoo-sources. > > Out of curiosity, may I ask why? > >
If I stumble across a BUG() or OOPS, I can go straight to lkml and report it, without somebody saying 'try to reproduce it with a plain linux kernel'. Also, the less patches the smaller the chance that somebody introduced some arcane incompatibility. Important if you are inclined to use third party drivers or out of tree file systems. Also, gentoo-sources never gave me anything I did miss with vanilla sources. So why using them?
