New kernel from Dave out...and kernel.org!

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:49:58AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
 > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:36:44AM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
 > > BTW, are fedora Kernel releases full releases of the original tweaked for 
 > > Fedora/RedHat, or are there patches always missing or added? Just curious.
 > 
 > Take a look at the source RPM:
 > ...
 > So, there's about a hundred patches.

At it's best, we've had Fedora ship as few as ~40 patches against mainline.
For quite a while though, we've had around 100. A lot of the stuff we
have there right now is queued for 2.6.19, so they'll just fall out
when I do a post-FC6 2.6.19 rebase.

I actually went through and either dropped, or pushed upstream a bunch
of patches last week, when we were at a patchcount of around 120 or so.
If you count up the individual patches, it seems like a lot, but when
you think of them in terms like.. signed modules is 6 patches, execshield
is 3 patches, xen is 11 patches etc, etc, it adds up pretty quickly,
and the number of 'feature' patches we add is pretty low compared to
things like compile fixes, driver fixes, the 15 debugging aids, the
tweaks to upstream defaults that aren't covered under CONFIG_ options etc..

There'll be a small 'spike' over the next month or so, as we add more
fixes that get found during FC6/RHEL5 development. We should be pretty much
feature complete[1] at this stage however, so the FC6 kernel should be
pretty solid when it ships.

		Dave

[1] As always, there's a few stragglers.

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