"Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
>
> On 2 Jan 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >
> > Its never been in the standard 2.4 kernel. The facility has been in the
> > -ac kernel, and was recently submitted for consideration in 2.5
>
> that's odd. the selection for kernel .config support has been in
> the red hat config menus for at least the last release, as well
> as the extraction script .../scripts/extract-ikconfig. but this
> never worked due to a missing "binoffset" utility. i even filed
> a bugzilla on that (bug 65677).
>
> just curious -- how did that ever end up in the distributed red hat
> kernel if it was never standard? strange.
>
Redhat kernel is not the same as standard kernel (the official one, on
kernel.org). Redhat adds a number of patches to the standard kernel
before releasing it.
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