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

Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Mar 1, 2011 2:02 UTC (Tue) by brouhaha (guest, #1698)
In reply to: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source by riel
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

and it was getting to the point where applying the patches took almost as much time as compiling the kernel on some systems.

So? Computers are also twice as fast as they were ten years ago.

I have a hard time believing that Red Hat's kernel developers can effectively manage kernel development WITHOUT keeping a set of patches against the stock kernel. It seems likely to me that they are just flattening it somewhere in the process downstream from where the actual maintenance occurs.

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