Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Jesper Juhl]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:09:17PM -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote:
> > > Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S and
> > > linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S differ
> > >
> > Ok. They edit setup.S. This doesn't change APIs.
> >
> > > Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/defconfig and
> > > linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/defconfig differ
> > >
> > SuSE doesn't ship the default kernel .config. *SHOCK!* Neither does
> > anyone else.
> >
> Well, Slackware Linux usually ships with an unmodified kernel.org kernel
> (there are rare cases of patches that fix security issues though). I find
> this a very nice property of Slackware since there are never any problems
> when replacing the default kernel with a custom build kernel.org one...
> There are other minor distributions that also ship with kernel.org
> kernels - I don't have a list at hand, but I've run into several over the
> years.
>
Whoops, should have read the parent email better. Slackware does not use
the default kernel .config, it does however use the kernel.org source
without additional patches.. I agree, nobody ships a defconfig kernel.


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Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>

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