Simple stats on Mandrake Kernels [LWN.net]

Simple stats on Mandrake Kernels

Posted Oct 28, 2004 15:52 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
In reply to: Some development model notes by lacostej
Parent article: Some development model notes

[alex@cambridge SOURCES]$ bunzip2 -c linux-2.4.25-q2.tar.bz2 | tar -tv | grep "patches" | wc -l
545

and for 2.6

[alex@cambridge SOURCES]$ bunzip2 -c linux-2.6.3-q7.tar.bz2 | tar -tv | grep "patches" | wc -l
274

However not entirely unexpected as there are a lot of backported features in the 2.4 kernel that where 2.6 features. I suspect as more of the desktop "features" make it into the mainline the more patches will drop out.

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Simple stats on Mandrake Kernels

Posted Oct 28, 2004 16:01 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]

However the Mandrake Cooker kernel has jumped ahead

[alex@cambridge SOURCES]$ bunzip2 -c linux-2.6.8.1-q10.tar.bz2 | tar -tv | grep "patches" | wc -l
428

So the answer would seem to be no, not yet.