On 03/05/2011 04:07 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > This post appeared on another forum: > This kernel change does not impact the ability to rebuild the source as is, it just makes it much harder to do anything except build the pristine kernel from kernel.org or the Red Hat kernel. You can still compare the RH tarball to the pristine kernel and see all the changes ... they are just not added one at a time. This will make it very difficult to back out one patch (because your server is running version xyz of farmer joe's ethernet card, and that does not work with PatchA). This should not impact building the kernel ... it might impact things like the CentOSPlus Kernel or CentOS providing a "stop gap" kernel (in the testing repo) while waiting for Red Hat to correct a problem and get their kernel through engineering and then released. That is not to say I like the changes, as it will have impacts ... but as long as they only do it to the kernel, it is not a big problem. If they do it to every package in the OS, then that would be a much bigger problem. It is much easier for us to find and remove trademarks when they are inserted via a patch into existing upstream code ... if we only had the modified tarballs and not the patches, it would be much harder to find all the things that need changing. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110305/c7e77410/attachment-0005.sig>