Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265201AbUFROzf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:55:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265206AbUFROze (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:55:34 -0400 Received: from mail.dif.dk ([193.138.115.101]:52205 "EHLO mail.dif.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265201AbUFROzc (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:55:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:54:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Jesper Juhl To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Kyle McMartin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <40D232AD.4020708@opensound.com> <20040618002017.GA29005@engsoc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1480 Lines: 37 On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:09:17PM -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote: > > > Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S and > > > linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S differ > > > > > Ok. They edit setup.S. This doesn't change APIs. > > > > > Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/defconfig and > > > linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/defconfig differ > > > > > SuSE doesn't ship the default kernel .config. *SHOCK!* Neither does > > anyone else. > > > Well, Slackware Linux usually ships with an unmodified kernel.org kernel > (there are rare cases of patches that fix security issues though). I find > this a very nice property of Slackware since there are never any problems > when replacing the default kernel with a custom build kernel.org one... > There are other minor distributions that also ship with kernel.org > kernels - I don't have a list at hand, but I've run into several over the > years. > Whoops, should have read the parent email better. Slackware does not use the default kernel .config, it does however use the kernel.org source without additional patches.. I agree, nobody ships a defconfig kernel. -- Jesper Juhl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/