[RETRY #2] Web100 kernel patch on fedora stock kernels

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:47 AM +0530 Rahul Sundaram 
<sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:

> If you look at the existing patches generally do not add new features but
> contain bug fixes in order to fix the problem sooner and usually are
> later merged into the upstream kernel.

Is there some way to tell for each patch where it came from and what it's 
status is upstream? Like a kernel.org bugzilla entry (or whatever they 
use). How does the kernel maintainer know when it's time to pull a patch 
out of the RPM?