Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[Brad Laue]

Brian Jackson wrote:
> USE flags is a bad way to do things, lets say you have 116 patches (the latest
> pfeifer-sources does). If the 32nd patch is optional based on a use flag, it
> could take away parts that a later patch relies on, which would make the
> entire patchset fail. Now obviously this has been working since the current
> gentoo-sources and older pfeifer-sources does this, but it only works because
> all the patches have to be specially diffed in just the right order. At
> present time we don't have the manpower to do this.
>

Fair enough; three patchsets would probably equal the amount of work 
required to maintain three kernels. In that case maybe expanding 
gentoo-sources' patchset to cover the fundamentals (it's my 
understanding XFS among other things I'm after are in pfeifer-sources, 
it's just a matter of getting it out the door).

If grsec-sources and others do exist though, I think a lot of the 
gentoo-sources stuff should exist as a subset, though - when I switched 
from gentoo- to xfs-sources a great deal of iptables functionality was 
missing - thankfully grsecurity was still there, though.

Another good idea would be to document the content of the kernels on 
gentoo.org to make it easier to choose from.

Brad


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