From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:22:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_=702Dk9irmbUCDYiOVe3c0uMKWzzCC3i9nM0CKyitc=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
<frodriguez.developer@outlook.com> wrote:
> On Monday 20 October 2014 10:59:52 AM Michael Mattes wrote:
>> And that is because of the additional features? :-D
>
> I've had issues with the additional features too. Some of the USB serial
> devices don't get detected. But this is fixed by disabling the Gentoo specific
> options. I may be wrong but I think they're just configuration patches, not the
> actual kernel sources. I do use the vanilla kernel because at one point I
> needed features from a version that wasn't yet on portage.
>
How long ago was this? It looks like gentoo-sources just tracks the
stable kernel, and so does vanilla-sources. If you want mainline you
need git-sources, assuming you aren't just pulling them from git
yourself (an option you of-course have with vanilla too).
The config items in the gentoo-sources are really just master switches
to turn on everything needed by openrc/systemd/etc - they're
conveniences just like meta-packages in portage.
Now, gentoo-sources DOES include additional patches, and some of them
are features. It is of course entirely possible that they could cause
problems, but I imagine that they're selected fairly carefully.
The general philosophy mixed with some very dated info can be found at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-24 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-18 4:17 [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0 Philip Webb
2014-10-18 4:38 ` Tomas Mozes
2014-10-18 11:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-18 21:09 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-10-18 21:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-18 21:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-20 5:06 ` Tomas Mozes
2014-10-23 14:15 ` Andrew Savchenko
2014-10-24 13:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-20 8:59 ` Michael Mattes
2014-10-24 3:53 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2014-10-24 11:22 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2014-10-29 20:22 ` Fernando Rodriguez
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