includes

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:50:28PM -0800, Shawn Tayler took 25 lines to write:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I know this may sound like a dumb question of the week candidate but here
> it goes.
> 
> Distro is Slackware 10.2-current.
> 
> I have been wondering about the includes that come with each kernel
> tarball.  I have been avoiding doing any kernel related upgrades to my
> Slack installs with the exception of using the sources from kernel.org.
> The reason has been strangeness with the sources provided as packages for
> Slack.  I've just had much better luck with the generic code.  

I'm not following this at all. If you mean that Slackware's kernel
package is somehow different from kernel.org's kernel, you are quite
mistaken. Slackware is one of the few distros that distributes stock
sources and *doesn't* modify them.

> How does one go about using the includes that come with the kernel
> tarball?  I would think they would be a better choice given that I would
> be using that version kernel.

I'm still not following you. What do you mean "using the includes that
come with the kernel tarball."

Kurt
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