To Kernel, or not to kernel :-)

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2006-22-12 at 16:46 -0500, stan wrote:
> I'm putting Kubuntu 6.10 on several machines over the weekend. Thes
> machines will replace existing older Debian based workstations.
> 
> I have run in to an issue with my existing CD recorder scripts, that I
> think I need to have IDE SCSI emulation avaialble to resolve.
> 
not sure this is truer, if you can switch yrt script from dev.sda to
dev/hdc or similar you should be ok.  

> Historically I have sometimes built custom jernels. But looking at all the
> fixes I see coming from the Ubuntu repositories, I'm a little reluctant to
> do this.
> 
> What's the Ubuntu way to do this? Is building custom kernels not the
> prefered way? If I do build one, which should I build? Looking on
> kernel,org, I see 2.6.19.1, but I also see that 2.6.18.6 has a newer
> datestamp. 
> 


> -- 
> Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
> (Dennis Ritchie)
> 
> 
kernel maintainers discourage custom builds as they want to keep the
noise from support requests down.  however it's not that hard to do esp
if you already know how to use git; see 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelCustomBuild

you ban also build the restricted modules pkg if you're willing to
modify debian/rules etc; if not, i've submitted a patch to l-r-m that
makes it easier to build.  see 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/77064

g'luck, matt

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