[plug] patching rh7 kernel to 2.2.18

[Matt Kemner]

Hi Aunty

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Aunty Jack wrote:

> Thanks for that. will the lack of the redhat patches cause me grief in
> my otherwise rh setup? What sort of patches do the add anyhow ???

I'm not entirely sure what they add. You'd have to check with RH
themselves - might be on their website somewhere. Usually they add things
like better cyrix processor support, the latest NFS patches, (in the case
of Mandrake) reiserfs support etc.  Basically any patches they feel are
useful to a large audience, but which have not met official Linus-approval

You may even find the latest RH kernel already has the IDE patch
installed, in which case you could just download their sources (or even
their kernel binary) and be done with it.

Where's the fun in that though? *grin*

 - Matt