Why is FC2-kernel different from kernel.org-kernel?

[Timothy Murphy]

Giulio Sorrentino wrote:

> The configuration of FC kernels is different than the vanilla ones.
> FC kernels, at last, include some third patches.

which in almost all (if not all) cases are completely unnecessary.

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