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aj@dungeon.inka.de
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:13:42 +0100

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Subject: Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131
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From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:13:03 +0100

>Look at the "big" distributions - how many of those do you think ship
>vanilla, unaltered 2.0.x kernels? Not many, if any, to save you the
>trouble of looking.

but on any of these distributions, i can get the newest kernel,
kompile it, and everything works. this is because distributions add features
not yet in the official kernel, like a new scsi controler and other stuff
written to get into the kernel. adding stuff "that will never make it into
the kernel" is a different issue.

andreas

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