From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: what is the best multi-SATA-controller-on-a-single-board out there? Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:24:35 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <41109D43.4020009@buttersideup.com> References: <20040730234706.M12321@contactbda.com> <20040801150258.M30882@contactbda.com> <1091382829.11770.14.camel@tinny.home.foo> <410E15EB.7030407@buttersideup.com> <410F52ED.9070403@buttersideup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Jon Lewis wrote: >some of the distros like to use heavily >patched kernels...so one distro's 2.4.x kernel may be quite different from >another's. So unless you build custom kernels from the kernel.org >sources, kernel verion _and_ distro is more meaningful. > > > Sorry, I wasn't being clear - I interpreted "kernel version" as including specifying what distro patches were included. e.g. Redhat EL's 2.4.9, or Debian's 2.4.26, kernel.org's 2.6.8rc2 etc. since you can - for example - run the redhat kernel, with Debian's userland e.g. http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/kernel-patch-redhat if you need to use some Redhat-only binary driver, or kernel feature). Tim.