If you want to brave using a non distro kernel you really have to know
what you are doing. "know what you are doing" includes being able to
assess the patches yourself ;-)




On Mon, November 26, 2007 3:30 pm, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I want to use the Linux kernel source from kernel.org instead of
> the source from the Debian package, and I got the list of patches
> that the Debian project applies to the kernel source before they put
> it in the package repositories, and I want to know if there are any
> of these patches I that I probably need.  Obviously, I don't want
> most of them, such as patches for bug fixes or features on
> architectures other than x86, or for features I wont ever use, like
> support for 2TB filesystems, so how can I find out what patches I
> might want of need?
>
> Thanks,
> Aidan
>
>


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Nick Rout

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