Custom kernels

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:39, Hans Engelen wrote:

> I mean come on ... The great strenght of Linux is that you can configure and 
> customize the kernel options to your personal needs. Am I to understand from 
> this warning that Red Hat will refuse support to people that do so ? I can 
> understand not wanting to get blamed for instabilities that might arise from 
> kernels patched with unstable/untested 3rd party patches but customizing 
> your .config (and recompiling) on an otherwise unalterd kernel source tree 
> should be allowed no ?

Sure it's allowed, but if you find bugs in an upstream kernel, you
should report them to upstream, not Red Hat. It's that simple.
The rhn applet is basically telling you "don't tell us about it if it
breaks".

	Dave