Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Posted Mar 3, 2011 0:05 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)In reply to: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source by jerub
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
I wear another hat as a driver developer, and I can say that it is significantly more frustrating to review and test RH's backport of the driver to RHEL 6 than the backport to RHEL 5 - even though the latter is 14 kernel releases older and consequently needs more changes to the upstream driver.
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