probably because it's a bit of a pain to apply the patch and recompile the kernel...is there no easier way of testing? ---------------------
Speaking as one of the "Hairy Knuckle/Kilingon" crowd
its not that bad if you know what options to set/module/unset
you can do the compile run in a few minutes (My Intel celeron 700 did a compile during a midshow commerical break)
Side note does the kernel source rpm have the matching .config file included? ie if i install 2.4.21-3mdk.src.rpm does it have the .config used to build 2.4.21-3mdk.i586.rpm?
