How are fedora kernels modified from vanilla kernels
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Oct 25 00:23:20 UTC 2004
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:38:55AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > They are heavily patched.
> Still heavily? Really? Certainly not as heavily as they used to be
> patched with Red Hat Linux. Last time I looked, the number of patches
> was down to a few dozen or less. Compare that with a well-known other
> Linux distributor, where you might need four digits for the number of
> kernel patches applied. ;)
How about some numbers? :)
For kernel-2.6.8-1.521, diffstat run on all of the patch files in the RPM
says:
546 files changed, 28339 insertions(+), 1880 deletions(-)
By comparison, kernel-2.4.20-31.9 from Red Hat Linux 9 gives:
3334 files changed, 495015 insertions(+), 91223 deletions(-)
So, significantly less is changed -- but thirty thousand lines of changes
might still count as "heavily".
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