[Gllug] Major corporal damage to the Kernel?

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 10:29, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> The only headaches you're likely to get with a heavily patched kernel is if
> you need drivers that aren't currently in the kernel sources. Such as
> NVidia. They might have trouble compiling if something in the modified
> sources clashes, but, as it's read hat, most of the GOOD vendors will just
> release a pre-compiled RPM for redhat anyway.
Redhat (and others) are patching kernel primary to get rid of bugs that
are in it. They are testing software on many platforms, and it should
work fine on all of them.

> If you do have a bit of hardware with a driver that won't compile, all it
> means is downgrading to a previous kernel (or upgrading to the latest stock
> one, depending on what the docs say that came with the driver).
That is second - and very important reason. Everyone want to use some features/drivers 
but there is no place for every single one in vanilla kernel - it is allready 200 MB big :)

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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj at pointblue.com.pl>
K4 labs



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