No, the changes made to the SuSE kernel were quite substantial. The stock kernel patches won't apply to the SuSE sources. And the points people made about testing are valid: 2.2.16 is the first kernel I've seen with an "errata" patch, so it's obviously not the best to come out of Swansea, and SuSE need their kernels to be rock solid. When I asked my original question I wasn't trying to rush things along; I just wanted a "yes we are working on it". Which I got, although not from SuSE. WRT ReiserFS, there won't be an official Linus-approved patch for 2.2.x. It will get into 2.4, but probably not at 2.4.0. The Reiser folks have what they claim is a cut worth going into 2.4.0, but other developers are still a little unhappy about it. Everyone wants a journalling FS in 2.4, but stability and maintainability take precedence over features every time.
I guess I should just try it, but if you got the Kernel 2.2.14-->2.2.16 patch, could you patch the SuSE Kernel source code to 2.2.16, or would it be unable to patch a customized kernel? BTW, is there any plans to merge ReiserFS into the standard Kernel?
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