kernel updates from external trees

[Michael A. Peters]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:17, Josh Boyer wrote:

> 
> At _any_ point during the development of the kernel for a new product
> release, do the kernel developers bring in changes from external trees? 
> If so, which ones?

Yes they do.
I know in the past red hat releases, they have backported stuff from the
devel series kernel into the one they are shipping (IE backport 2.3
stuff into 2.2 - and 2.5 stuff into 2.6) and I believe they also do take
some stuff from other sources as well.

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