On 5/15/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > The "vanilla" sources are the same sources you would get on kernel.org. > > No extra patches (as you would find in gentoo-dev-sources) or > > optimizations/patches (as you would find in ck-sources) and no "bleeding > > edge" patches (as you would find in mm-sources). > > > > The kernel doesn't get any more risk-free than vanilla-sources, because > > if those sources are broken then Linux is broken. > > Official kernel releases have come out with fairly large bugs in the past. > gentoo-sources-2.6 is obviously based on vanilla-sources, but includes a light > patchset on top, mainly to solve security issues and to fix bugs which are > already fixed in the current development version (currently 2.6.12-rc4). There > are also a few feature patches applied but all new features are optional. > > The idea of gentoo-sources-2.6 is to be *more* stable than vanilla Linux, so > I'm not quite sure why you'd change from gentoo-sources to vanilla-sources, > unless you had a problem with a patch that we include, in which case I'd like > to know about it :) > > Daniel > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
Well, a couple things. a) I want some functionality which is available in 2.6.12 (dvb) and b) For me, something broke after 2.6.9-rc14 causing subsequent kernels to freeze on boot when trying to load my third sata drive. I've filed a bug about this, but was thinking maybe some other sources might not have this issue. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
