Question on building a new kernel

David A. Sinck wrote:
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> \_ SMTP quoth Scott on 4/3/2003 20:27 as having spake thusly:
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> \_ I have a RH 7.3 system installed. When it was installed, the kernel
> \_ sources where not. I have since downloaded kernel 2.4.20. I want to add
> \_ video for linux and usb support.
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> [thread deleted]
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> Be aware that if you're building using a redhat config file against a
> standard vanilla kernel, you're probably in for a bit of a ride.
> Redhat has buckets of patches that are applied, some probably provide
> new config options which may invalidate reusing their kernel config
> file in the new setting.
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> It may be better to take the latest kernel src update and apply the
> necessary patches to it, and rebuild. It may not. It is doable
> though, as I've got a bunch of boxes supporting more current LVS
> patched into the latest RH update kernel.

My experience has been that if you are compiling the latest stable kernel, that
all the patches that Redhat applied to their kernel was simply to bring it up to
date with security fixes. I have had no issues using redhats configs as long as
I was using the latest kernel.