> Its about the patches that they apply to the kernels they ship. Suse (who I
> don't personally like as a distro) ship a 2.2 kernel with the USB backport
> patches applied. The point is that its not Linus' fault that RH doesn't ship
> with decent USB support - if they wanted to they could do what Suse do -
> fund development and put time and energy into getting it into their version
> of the kernel quickly.
Each vendor has to make their own decisions on what they consider stable
enough to ship. They all reach their own conclusions. The important thing is
that the patches are published and easily available. All the SuSE VA and
Red Hat patches appear to be. So you can pick and match from Red Hat
sponsored enhancements to Raid, lfs, raw I/O etc. SuSE sponsored USB work,
and of course Xservers, and VA work on stuff like NFS and more.
Stuff from all these sources gradually gets back into the main stream. USB
for 2.2 is a clear candidate once its more stable in 2.4.0test for example.
Alan
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