It's the other way around [LWN.net]

It's the other way around

Posted Mar 1, 2011 8:47 UTC (Tue) by gnufreex (guest, #70396)
In reply to: It's the other way around by khim
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

No.

Everyone is getting less. Customers get same.

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It's the other way around

Posted Mar 1, 2011 11:18 UTC (Tue) by mmahut (guest, #45550) [Link] (2 responses)

No.

As a customer I have now access to the "Source Browser" section in the Customer Portal that let me browse through the code (patches included). It looks similar to an opengrok instance.

It's the other way around

Posted Mar 2, 2011 6:11 UTC (Wed) by gdt (guest, #6284) [Link] (1 responses)

But as a customer I lose the ability to straight-forwardly rebuild a kernel dropping a problematic patch.

It's the other way around

Posted Mar 3, 2011 12:06 UTC (Thu) by mmahut (guest, #45550) [Link]

Well, not really - you can revert the patch you get from the source browser against the tarball during the build, you get the same effect. But I recommend you to ask Red Hat for a hot-fix in such case, as a kernel build by yourself won't be supported.