"vanilla" kernel closest to Fedora kernel

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Sun Jan 2 10:23:02 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 01:56 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:48 PM -0500 Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > There is not a lot of patching in the Fedora kernel. 2.6.10 will run
> > happily in the FC environment unpatched as the tmpfs selinux patchesare
> > now in
> 
> It would be nice if each of the patches in the kernel spec file had a 
> comment explaining what it was for and why it was needed. (Pointers to 
> bugzillas for each would be adequate.) I've been afraid to use vanilla 
> kernels because I didn't know what those patches did and what would break 
> if I didn't have them.

there is such a comment for each patch. 
I put them at the place where the patch got applied; I'm not sure where
Dave puts them.

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