Re: using bug reports on vendor kernels

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Donnerstag,  9. August 2001 23:31 schrieben Sie:
> 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).

It might do so. However the speed of my internet connectivity would make this 
a very, very slow task.
And the day after having completed that I'd be bound to get a bug report from 
a Mandrake user.

	Regards
		Oliver