You mentioned you couldn't find documentation on the suse patches inserted to the vanilla kernel. It would seem that some if not all of these are tied to making that kernel run in the suse/opensuse environment, rather than actually fixing bugs. Sorry, I didn't meant the openSUSE patches in Vanilla kernel. I meant
John Andersen wrote: the openSUSE patches, which are not in the openSUSE Vanilla kernel, but that could be important for some low-level functions like Apparmor. In general the documentation for users, who want to build custom kernels is a bit outdated:
From /usr/share/doc/packages/kernel-source-4.16.0-1/README.SUSE (openSUSE Tumbleweed): WORKING WITH THE SUSE 2.6.x and 3.x KERNEL SOURCES [...] Michal Marek <...>, SUSE Labs, 2010 [...]
* no examples for building kernel RPM packages * no DKMS * Lilo bootloader, but no Grub bootloader * no real-world examples for building external kernel modules (Nvidia driver, VirtualBox drivers ...) Greetings, Björn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org