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The changes are all upstream to begin with. It's a fork in the sense that it's heavily diverged from the source of the old kernel, but it's all still backports
by dralley 8y ago
The changes are all upstream to begin with.
It's a fork in the sense that it's heavily diverged from the source of the old kernel, but it's all still backports and not a ton of new development.
- hinkley 8y agoWhy does it need to be diverged if there is no new functionality in their version? Because they can?
- vertex-four 8y agoWhy do many distros have releases to which only bug and security fixes are applied? Same reason. The divergence is just those fixes.
- kikoreis 8y agoABI stability to support binary-only loadable modules is probably the most important reason.