Re: using bug reports on vendor kernels

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:31:04 -0600 (MDT)


Oliver writes:
> is there a site that would allow me to browse a list of patches added to
> vendor kernels (esp. RedHat). I need this to use an oops supplied by a user.

You _should_ be able to simply get the RedHat source RPM, and have a look
at the various patches that are applied to the base Linus kernel. At least
that is how the Turbolinux and SuSE kernels are built (haven't looked
at a RedHat kernel in a while, but I expect the same). Granted, some
of the patch names are not exactly self explanitory (e.g. jumbo patches
like -ac or -aa, which have their own documentation somewhere, often l-k).

Cheers, Andreas

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