includes

[Shawn Tayler]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:18:36 -0500 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
exclaimed:

> 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."

Hi Kurt,

Yes I do admit my post was kind of hard to follow, the old stream of
consciousness writing style I fall into on a regular basis.  Your comment
about the kernel code distributed under slack is well taken.  In the past,
when I have installed that package, kernel-source, and tried to build a
new kernel for the particular machine, I have run into some strange
problems, the initrd setting is 7777k in a the slack package and 4096 in
the the one from kernel.org.  I have not been able to get a clean build
off the packaged source and had little issue with the kernel.org source.
It could be just me, but there seemed to be differences in the menus under
make menuconfig with the slack package, especially in ver 9.0, 9.1, 10.1,
I stopped even trying after 10.0 and just went with a downloaded tree.

On the includes, I think I had my usual cranial rectal inversion going
that night.

Thanks Guys!

Shawn