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Re: [Networker] Very Frustrating Problem
2005-02-17 12:06:27
On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:51 AM, Tim Mooney wrote:
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".
All the major linux distributions ship kernels with hundreds of patches
over the kernel.org sources. The "enterprise" versions in particular
are heavily patched because the vendors are trying to maintain kernel
API stability while back-porting newer features to their kernels.
Byron
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