From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263661AbUEGQII (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:08:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263663AbUEGQII (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:08:08 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:19625 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263661AbUEGQFv (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 12:05:51 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Distributions vs kernel development Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 18:05:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20040507085312.3247d70d@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-187-164-3.dd.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8IDO/eFFbdD3PL4VcgoJf5wDNus= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger writes: > 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. My last slackware install used an unmodified kernel, I don't know if the latest versions so the same. I run gentoo with vanilla 2.6 kernels. I recently installed a vanilla 2.6 kernel on a redhat9 machine, without any problems (which quite surprised me). -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se