From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752996AbXKSMzp (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:55:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752647AbXKSMzh (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:55:37 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57802 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412AbXKSMzg (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:55:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:55:31 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other Message-ID: <20071119125531.GD15942@infradead.org> References: <2089856624@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:25:27PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > devzero@web.de writes: > > > does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ? > > > > i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel sources and thus turning it into their own specific version. > > There used to be such a page at kernelnewbies, but at some point it disappeared. > > I agree it would be a useful resource. As one of the persons who used to maintain that information on kernelnewbies I agree. It's just quite a bit of work and these days it's not always easy to get at the vendor kernels anymore either.