Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131 | Date | Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:24:04 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > But, apart from caldera shipping (erk!) streams, I'm not aware of a > > distribution shipping a kernel with significant extra functionality. > > I think RH shipped with a rather modified sound system using modules and > load-time configuration which at that time was not in the standard > kernels.
Thats a pretty good example although in some ways different since they shipped driver changes not API changes. It doesn't cause a big problem, and the modular sound has been folded into 2.1.x so will be a standard part of 2.2
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