[Gllug] Kernel source on Red Hat

[Simon Trimmer]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:33:41PM +0100, Simon Trimmer wrote:
>
>  > yes, one or two extra patches...looking at the release kernel in 7.3 ;
>  > [simon at hobgoblin rh]$ ls *patch | wc -l
>  >     144
>  > Dave can correct me but last time I looked SuSE had a few hundred as well 8)
>
> Don't have an unpacked SuSE 8.0 kernel around, but the 7.3 one had 184
> additional patches by my count.  Though some of them aren't even used
> in normal x86 kernels.. for eg we shipped the UML patches for some
> reason.. (Mine is not to question why). The rest of the patches are made
> up of things like fs/driver updates, and feature enhancements like Tux,
> low-latency patches, Andrea's VM, netconsole, the snazzy framebuffer
> splash screen thing, JFS, IPVS, and boatloads of other small bits..

Yeah, I took a look after you passed a comment about the ecc driver. It's
usually a good idea to see what's been slipped in when you weren't looking :)


> Anyone curious as to whats inside various vendors kernels may
> be interested in.. http://kernelnewbies.org/kernels/

That's a very useful link, ta

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>


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