Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source [LWN.net]

Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Feb 28, 2011 21:41 UTC (Mon) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

This is rather unfortunate; the patch list has been helpful to me numerous times, both when hunting down regressions against stock kernel and to quickly inspect whether a backported feature or a fix is present.

Also, the snapshot kernels are gone, with an explanation from linville that it's Red Hat's policy now.

On the other hand, I've not paid for anything from Red Hat anyway, just am wondering whether paying customers are stripped off those rather valuable resources as well.

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Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Feb 28, 2011 22:01 UTC (Mon) by mmahut (guest, #45550) [Link] (2 responses)

On the other hand, I've not paid for anything from Red Hat anyway, just am wondering whether paying customers are stripped off those rather valuable resources as well.

I don't think they are. As a customer you have access to an interface that let you browse these sources with references to erratas, bugzillas, changelogs and patches now.

Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Mar 1, 2011 13:52 UTC (Tue) by ixs (subscriber, #47170) [Link] (1 responses)

Where is that interface?

I have been looking around https://access.redhat.com and cannot see anything like a kernel source browser.

Any pointers? Thx.

Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Mar 2, 2011 10:35 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

Found it here: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/sources/
(Customer Portal -> Knowledge -> Source)