Dave Sherohman wrote: > How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian > kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does > debian do any patching or just distribute the official source > unmodified?
For 2.4 kernels, Debian usually applies some additional patches, mostly bugfixes that have been submitted to the kernel mailing list but which haven't yet been incorporated into the official tree. There is a file in the Debian package that describes the patches applied. I don't know if Debian also modifies their 2.2 kernels; there's probably less of a need to. My preference is to use the kernel.org tarballs over vendor-modified sources. Craig
