How are fedora kernels modified from vanilla kernels

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Sunday 24 October 2004 7:36 pm, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-24-10 at 20:23 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > So, significantly less is changed -- but thirty thousand lines of changes
> > might still count as "heavily".
>
> So what exactly is different, anyway? What am I missing out on by
> running a generic kernel.org kernel? Anything worth having?

ftom the 2.6.9-240 spec file clearly not many patches at all. 

#
# Patches 0 through 100 are meant for core subsystem upgrades
#
Patch1: patch-2.6.9-final.bz2
Patch2: patch-2.6.9-final-bk2.bz2

#
# Patches 10 to 100 are upstream patches we want to back out
#
Patch10: linux-2.6.7-hugetlb.patch
Patch11: linux-2.6.7-iobitmap.patch

# Patches 100 through 500 are meant for architecture patches

# 200 - 300   x86(-64)

Patch200: linux-2.6.5-nostack.patch

# 300 - 330   ppc(64))
Patch300: linux-2.6.2-ppc64-build.patch
Patch305: linux-2.6.8-ppc64-netboot.patch
#
# 330 - 350   ia64
#
Patch330: linux-2.6.3-ia64-build.patch


# 350 - 400   s390(x)
Patch350: linux-2.6.1-s390-compile.patch

#
# 400 - sparc(64)
#
Patch400: linux-2.6.3-sparc-addbzimage.patch

#
# Patches 500 through 1000 are reserved for bugfixes to the core system
# and patches related to how RPMs are build
#

Patch500: linux-2.4.0-nonintconfig.patch
Patch510: linux-2.6.8-flexmmap-x86-64.patch
Patch511: linux-2.6.0-exec-shield.patch
Patch512: linux-2.6.8-print-fatal-signals.patch
Patch513: linux-2.6.8-execshield-vaspace.patch
Patch520: linux-2.6.8-4g4g-backout.patch
Patch521: linux-2.6.0-4g4g.patch
Patch530: linux-2.6.0-must_check.patch
Patch540: linux-2.6.2-tux.patch
Patch600: linux-2.6.7-modsign-core.patch
Patch601: linux-2.6.7-modsign-crypto.patch
Patch602: linux-2.6.7-modsign-ksign.patch
Patch603: linux-2.6.7-modsign-mpilib.patch
Patch604: linux-2.6.7-modsign-script.patch
Patch605: linux-2.6.7-modsign-include.patch


#
# Patches 1000 to 5000 are reserved for bugfixes to drivers and filesystems
#

Patch1000: linux-2.4.0-test11-vidfail.patch
Patch1020: linux-2.6.4-stackusage.patch
Patch1030: linux-2.6.5-ext3-reservations.patch
Patch1031: linux-2.6.8-ext3-reservations-update.patch
Patch1040: linux-2.6.5-ext3-online-resize.patch
Patch1050: linux-2.6.7-devmem.patch
Patch1051: linux-2.6.0-devmem.patch
Patch1060: linux-2.6.3-crash-driver.patch
Patch1070: linux-2.6.0-sleepon.patch
Patch1080: linux-2.6.7-voluntary-preemption.patch
Patch1081: linux-2.6.7-early-schedule.patch
Patch1100: linux-2.6.7-i8042.patch

Patch1110: linux-2.6.9-irqfixup.patch
Patch1120: linux-2.6.7-scsi-whitelist.patch
Patch1140: linux-2.6.9-blockfixes.patch
Patch1150: linux-2.6.9-sata.patch
Patch1160: linux-2.6.8-lockd-racewarn2.patch

Patch1400: linux-2.6.9-kexec.patch

Patch1500: linux-2.6.8-crashdump-common.patch
Patch1510: linux-2.6.7-netdump.patch
Patch1520: linux-2.6.8-netconsole.patch
Patch1530: linux-2.6.8-diskdump-3.patch
Patch1540: linux-2.6.8-diskdump-scsi-3.patch
Patch1550: linux-2.6.8-mptfusion-diskdump.patch
Patch1560: linux-2.6.7-aic7xxx-diskdump.patch
Patch1570: linux-2.6.8-sym53c8xx-diskdump.patch
Patch1580: linux-2.6.8-ipr-diskdump.patch

Patch2000: linux-2.6.3-printopen.patch
Patch2010: linux-2.6.9-xattr-rework-tmpfs-mm.patch

Patch2020: linux-2.6.9-O_NONBLOCK.patch


#
# External drivers that are about to get accepted upstream
#

# Speedtouch USB DSL modem driver.
Patch3010: linux-2.6.9-speedtouch.patch

#
# 10000 to 20000 is for stuff that has to come last due to the
# amount of drivers they touch. But only these should go here.
# Not patches you're too lazy for to put in the proper place.
#

Patch10000: linux-2.6.0-compile.patch

# END OF PATCH DEFINITIONS

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