On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 00:01, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:53:25 +0200 > > > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 12:00, jdow wrote: > > > He should download the release 2.4.21 in full and then make it. Red Hat > > > kernels have patches already applied that make incremental patches from > > > the kernel tree likely to fail. > > > > RedHat kernels do contain patches, like NPTL backport from 2.5, that are > > not on the mainline 2.4.21 kernel. Compiling a vanilla 2.4.21 will > > surely make things like GNOME to break or start working erratically. > > Complete and utter nonsense. Running a 2.4.21 here and my system is rock solid. I don't really have anything that would benefit mightily from the NPTL backport anyway. I'm sorry if I'm saying nonsenses... During the RedHat 9 beta, I did compile a stock 2.4.20 without the NPTL backport patches and GNOME and Nautilus hung. I filled in a bug report but it was closed as "expected if you don't have an NPTL-enabled kernel". Maybe the NPTL patches have been integrated into 2.4.21 mainline without me getting notice of it.
