From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263134AbUEGRJq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 13:09:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263138AbUEGRJq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 13:09:46 -0400 Received: from 153.Red-213-4-13.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.4.13.153]:55561 "EHLO kerberos.felipe-alfaro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263134AbUEGRJp (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 13:09:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Distributions vs kernel development From: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Kernel Mailinglist In-Reply-To: <20040507085312.3247d70d@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20040507085312.3247d70d@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1083949775.1670.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-1) Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:09:35 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 17:53, 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). When running a non-vendor kernel, I need to reasonably expect that the system > will boot and all the filesystems and standard devices are available. I don't > expect every startup script to run clean, or every device that has a driver > only in the vendor kernel to work. Fedora Core 2 Test 3 runs beatifully with a stock kernel (I'm running FC2T3 with a stock 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 kernel). I suggest you to take a look at it.