From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263656AbUEGQDT (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:03:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263663AbUEGQDT (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:03:19 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:40644 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263656AbUEGQDN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:03:13 -0400 Message-ID: <409BB334.7080305@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 12:03:00 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Distributions vs kernel development References: <20040507085312.3247d70d@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20040507085312.3247d70d@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > After having being burned twice: first by Mandrake and supermount, and second > by SuSe and reiserfs attributes; are any of the distributions committed to > making sure that their distribution will run the standard kernel? (ie. 2.6.X from > kernel.org). When running a non-vendor kernel, I need to reasonably expect that the system > will boot and all the filesystems and standard devices are available. I don't > expect every startup script to run clean, or every device that has a driver > only in the vendor kernel to work. Fedora Core runs stock 2.4 and 2.6 kernels just fine... :) Jeff