Re: Distributions vs kernel development

[J. Ryan Earl]

Timothy Miller wrote:

> 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). 
>
>
> I use Gentoo for this.

As do I, I've never had a problem with a Vanilla kernel or one of 
Gentoo's maintained kernels.  Gentoo actually supports the 2.6 kernel, 
at least on AMD64 hardware that's all they support.  Though the vanilla 
kernels -do- work flawlessly, I still prefer the Gentoo patched kernels:

>>> Unpacking linux-2.6.5.tar.bz2 to 
/var/tmp/portage/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5-r1/work
* genpatches-2.6-5.29-base.tar.bz2 unpacked
* genpatches-2.6-5.29-extras.tar.bz2 unpacked
* Applying 
gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5.CAN-2004-0109.patch...                                                    
[ ok ]
* Applying 
1105_CAN-2004-0075-usb-vicam.patch...                                                              
[ ok ]
* Applying 
1305_x86_64-2.6.5-rc3.patch...                                                                     
[ ok ]
* Applying 
1310_k8_cardbus_io.patch...                                                                        
[ ok ]
* Applying 
1315_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch...                                                                     
[ ok ]
* Applying 
1905_bluetooth-oops.patch...                                                                       
[ ok ]
* Applying 
2110_bcm5700_broadcom_gigabit_drvr_11272003.patch...                                               
[ ok ]
* Applying 
2115_fa311-mac-address-fix.patch...                                                                
[ ok ]
* Applying 
2320_adaptec_dpt_i2o.patch...                                                                      
[ ok ]
* Applying 
2325_3ware-cmds_per_lun.patch...                                                                   
[ ok ]
* Applying 
2705_powernow-k8-acpi.patch...                                                                     
[ ok ]
* Applying 
3110_low-latency-cond_resched.patch...                                                             
[ ok ]
* Applying 
3305_am9-2.6.4.patch...                                                                            
[ ok ]
* Applying 
3310_cfq-4.patch...                                                                                
[ ok ]
* Applying 
4105_lirc_infrared-2.6.5-rc2.patch...                                                              
[ ok ]
* Applying 
4505_bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.5-rc2.patch...                                                           
[ ok ]
* Applying 
4705_squashfs-1.3r3.patch...                                                                       
[ ok ]
* Applying 
4710_lufs-0.9.7-2.6.0-test9.patch...                                                               
[ ok ]
* Applying 
4715_supermount-2.0.4-2.6.5_rc1.patch...                                                           
[ ok ]
* Applying 
4720_gcloop-2.6-20040330.patch...                                                                  
[ ok ]
* Applying 
4905_speakup_accessibility.patch...                                                                
[ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.

The k8/x86_64, broadcom, and bootsplash patches in particular make me 
happy.  They tend to stay within one or two minor kernel revisions of 
the current branch.  I've had production 2.6 servers for months.

-ryan
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