kernel updates from external trees

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 00:20, Tony Grant wrote:
> I am running Fedora Core 1 on a hush Epia-M10000 machine. I _HAD_ to
> roll my own kernel with video driver patches:
> 
> 	- the patches applied to the Fedora kernel src rpm weren't working
> 
> 	- I wanted to benefit from the 2.6.x kernel speed increase, on a 1Ghz
> machine any speed increse is more important than on a 2.x Ghz machine.
> 
> The video stuff is stable and performing quite well so my next update of
> kernel will be when I change to FC 2.
> 
> Hope that helps

I do the same with JFFS2.  dwmw2 has a wonderful script that patches the
current JFFS2 tree into almost any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.  I was just
curious how often this is done by the official kernel developers
_before_ an official release (i.e. the rawhide kernels).

thx,
josh