On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2014 10:59:52 AM Michael Mattes wrote: >> And that is because of the additional features? :-D > > I've had issues with the additional features too. Some of the USB serial > devices don't get detected. But this is fixed by disabling the Gentoo specific > options. I may be wrong but I think they're just configuration patches, not > the > actual kernel sources. I do use the vanilla kernel because at one point I > needed features from a version that wasn't yet on portage. >
How long ago was this? It looks like gentoo-sources just tracks the stable kernel, and so does vanilla-sources. If you want mainline you need git-sources, assuming you aren't just pulling them from git yourself (an option you of-course have with vanilla too). The config items in the gentoo-sources are really just master switches to turn on everything needed by openrc/systemd/etc - they're conveniences just like meta-packages in portage. Now, gentoo-sources DOES include additional patches, and some of them are features. It is of course entirely possible that they could cause problems, but I imagine that they're selected fairly carefully. The general philosophy mixed with some very dated info can be found at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/ -- Rich
