Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> I don't think the Fedora kernel developers ever try to "improve" >> something like a WiFi module, anyway. > > There has been a hell lot of misinformation in this thread but this one > takes it to a whole new level. Fedora/Red Hat developer John Linville > (http://people.redhat.com/linville/) is the upstream wireless subsystem > maintainer for the Linux kernel. Sorry, but if they do actually try to improve on Linus' team in this area I wish they wouldn't. I admit I am not a great fan of Fedora kernels - I normally compile my own from the vanilla kernels (I haven't got round to 2.6.22 yet) and I have never found a distribution kernel from Fedora or anyone else which worked any better for me than the standard kernel. (I've found many that worked worse.) I regard the kernel and the distribution as more or less orthogonal. If I actually had to run a non-standard kernel in order to run Fedora I would probably move to another distribution. Not a common point of view, I'm sure, but mine. > If you really want to know what changed in between these kernels, take a > look at the changelog or the cvs. Hint: it's not a typo. I'm not sure where one finds either of these - presumably with the kernel source? (I looked at the developer's URL you gave, but didn't find anything there.) I did think of downloading the two kernel sources, and comparing the SPEC files, but decided life was too short. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
