> Hendrik--I agree with you. At least in my case I do not choose to
> download every change but, monitor the list to get a feel for the
> problems as they develop. So I may choose to miss a few versions until
> things settle down. Then I'm faced with downloading a 10M file. Getting
> all the patches and trying to piece it together is an iffy job at best.
Never heard of linux/scripts/patch-kernel? Works fine with plain patches,
gz's, bz2's (at least with 2.1.x kernels, dunno about late 2.0.x).
Plain patch(1) is not _that_ hard to use either... just a bit of care.
I live near a kernel mirror, so I can take a dozen diskettes for a ride
everytime I want a new kernel tarball. Even so, I usually go 4 or 5
patchlevels by patching before getting a full version. Just plain laziness
on my part ;-)
> Cdroms are not up to date and get to be expensive. There should be a way
> to split up the kernel to contain the intel version, the m68k version
> etc. I can remember when I thought a 2M kernel was big.
A minor convenience for some folks, a royal pain all over for the
developers who will have to ensure all pieces stay in sync. If you hack
around, you'll need all pieces anyway, so you don't just not win, you loose
big.
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