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Linux Kernel to Fork?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the remember-when-the-kernel-spooned dept.

Ninjy writes "Techworld has a story up about the possibility of the 2.7 kernel forking to accomodate large patch sets. Will this actually happen, and will the community back such a decision? "

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  1. Re:From the article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well, the thing is the nvidia module needs to be manually recompiled, whereas kernel modules that are inside the kernel tree get recompiled when you recompile the kernel. The end result is simply that the nvidia module adds another step to the kernel upgrade process. Admittedly, it's a small step, especially on good distributions like Gentoo, where you just emerge the package again and let it do its thing.