From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261405AbUGXQZ0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:25:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261610AbUGXQZ0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:25:26 -0400 Received: from 30.Red-80-36-33.pooles.rima-tde.net ([80.36.33.30]:60882 "EHLO linalco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261405AbUGXQZY (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:25:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:21:11 +0200 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa To: szonyi calin Cc: Paul Jackson , Adrian Bunk , akpm@osdl.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New dev model (was [PATCH] delete devfs) Message-ID: <20040724162111.GA22206@linalco.com> References: <20040722152839.019a0ca0.pj@sgi.com> <20040723081637.93875.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040723081637.93875.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com> X-Edited-With-Muttmode: muttmail.sl - 2001-09-27 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:16:37AM +0200, szonyi calin wrote: > Are you sure ? There are a number of distribution who use the > stable kernel from kernel.org and some of them are much faster > (if you remember, compiling a kernel to suit your needs > sometimes improve performance). > One size _does not_ fit all. Right. Aaaand if I remember correctly you may download the source for, say, a RHEL kernel for gratis from Redhat (or a whitebox distro) and make menuconfig it and compile it the same way you do vanilla kernels. In fact, a single tree is far better for stable development in general. Vanilla things that break get spotted sooner, we avoid 2.x.0 the syndrome, and distro kernels in general may get more eyes from clueful people that otherwise would ignore them and leave the problems to less resourceful users. "Dont Panic" :) -- Ragnar Hojland - Project Manager Linalco "Specialists in Linux and Free Software" http://www.linalco.com Tel: +34-91-4561700