Holly Bostick wrote: > The "vanilla" sources are the same sources you would get on kernel.org. > No extra patches (as you would find in gentoo-dev-sources) or > optimizations/patches (as you would find in ck-sources) and no "bleeding > edge" patches (as you would find in mm-sources). > > The kernel doesn't get any more risk-free than vanilla-sources, because > if those sources are broken then Linux is broken.
Official kernel releases have come out with fairly large bugs in the past. gentoo-sources-2.6 is obviously based on vanilla-sources, but includes a light patchset on top, mainly to solve security issues and to fix bugs which are already fixed in the current development version (currently 2.6.12-rc4). There are also a few feature patches applied but all new features are optional. The idea of gentoo-sources-2.6 is to be *more* stable than vanilla Linux, so I'm not quite sure why you'd change from gentoo-sources to vanilla-sources, unless you had a problem with a patch that we include, in which case I'd like to know about it :) Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
