Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-22 Thread Cord Beermann
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

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi David! You wrote: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. > 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 > apply to it. If you want to, you can always use the vanilla

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Bastian Blank wrote: >... > > 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. > > but they also include vanilla kernelsources You don't want

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:45:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 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 f

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:45:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, David Spreen wrote: > > the _linux_ source (the package description told me that he packaged > > _linux_ sources and not xu-sources) that the patch-package people still can > > apply their patches. >

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, David Spreen wrote: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. He listened to you just fine, I bet. He did not *agree* with you. > My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to > modify the kernelsource from upstream so much, t

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:29:41AM +0200, David Spreen écrivait: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. That's not really a way to handle problems. > My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to > modify the kernelsource from upstream so much,

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:29:41AM +0200, David Spreen wrote: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. 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 apply to it. In > my