Regarding mainline builds.

[Tim Gardner]

On 06/29/2010 04:13 PM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> AFAIK you guys would keep deb packages for the mainline vanilla kernel
> on this url http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ .
>
> Though lately, I have seen that the mainline kernel build directories
> are suffixed with release code names, e.g. 2.6.35-rc2 is
> v2.6.35-rc3-maverick/
>
> Are these builds still the vanilla builds or do these have some release
> specific code too ?
>
> Thanks,
> Alok
>
>

Alok - all the name implies is that we're building the vanilla kernel 
from the Maverick config and debian directory. The components that don't 
exist (such as the ubuntu directory) won't get built. These mainline 
builds are absolutely vanilla.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com