Crazy idea

[Chuck Ebbert]

Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> The actual patches we carry are rarely the cause the problems that get reported.
> It's fairly uncommon for us to change drivers other than perhaps the
> occasional compile fix which usually goes upstream quickly.  Yet that's
> by far where most of the bugs that get reported are against.
> 
> Pretty much every time someone who files a Fedora kernel bug who then
> builds their own vanilla kernel and it 'works', it's because they
> chose different CONFIG options rather than the fact that it's vanilla.
> 

I think the best solution short-term is to try and get as much
into the -stable kernel as possible. That way most distro kernels
automatically become more similar.