ramifications of using a stock kernel?

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 15:05 -0400, jludwig wrote:
> On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:27 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> > jludwig wrote:
> > > On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:01 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> > >> Apparently the FC kernels are all hacked/patched by Red Hat.  Thus
> > >> things like ndiswrapper won't compile against them.  I need two things
> > >> that require a stock kernel from kernel.org:  ndiswrapper, and an
> > >> unofficial patch that makes my stupid Dell Inspiron 6000's DVD player
> > >> use DMA.
> > >>
> > >> Now my question is what ramifications will there be for using a stock
> > >> kernel on an FC3 system.  What will break?
> > >>
> > >> Oh, I have a second question.  Where can I get the stock FC3 kernel
> > >> config
> > >> file.  Honestly, the kernel has gotten so big, that I have no idea which
> > >> options should be turned off or on.  Its nice to just load the default
> > >> FC3 one, but I don't know where it is.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for the info.
> > >
> > > I have done so with the 2.4 kernel.
> > >
> > > You don't have to loose the Red Hat/Fedora kernel and can set up grub to
> > > boot from either(which is the wiswst choice anyways).
> >
> > Thats what I was planning on doing.  Still, curious about the answer to my
> > question though.  Also would like to know where the default FC3 kernel
> > config file is.  Thanks.
> >
> > -- C
> If you mean source it is in the /usr/src/2.6****** directory
> -- 
> John H Ludwig
> 

For most packages using the kernel source (except compiling the kernel
itself) the headers are all that is needed, and those can be found
in /lib/modules/<kernel version>/.....

As has already been mentioned, it may be necessary to install the
kernel-devel package for FC4 but I have not tried FC4 yet so do not know
about that.