In regard to: Re: [Networker] Very Frustrating Problem, Davina Treiber said...:

It's up to the kernel maintainers to decide when to up-rev any particular third party modules. I suppose RedHat could supply their own mods to the kernel in their distro but I don't think this is common practice.

;-)  It is for Red Hat.  In my workgroup, the Red Hat ES/AS 3 kernel is known
as the "Frankenkernel" because RH has grafted so much nonstandard stuff
onto the stock 2.4.x kernels.  The backport from the 2.6 series of the
New POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) was especially "monstrous".

I agree with pretty much everything else you said, though.

Tim
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