Re: What is the vanilla kernel?

From: Coywolf Qi Hunt
Date: Mon Oct 10 2005 - 01:47:10 EST


On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:17:05AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, jeff shia wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I googled it but could not find the answer.
> > Is it the standard linux kernel?
> > Thank you.
> >
>
> It's the one with no chocolate syrup ;-)
>
> Actually I just tried googling "define vanilla kernel" and the first hit
> was:
>
> "Web definitions for Vanilla kernel" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_kernel
> which does have the definition of the "vanilla" kernel.
>
> Hmm, It also says under Maintainers:
>
> 2.2 Marc-Christian Petersen (formerly Alan Cox)
>
> Did Alan Cox change his name? :-)

It means Alan Cox was once the maintainer.

Coywolf
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