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What\s the difference between the official kernels and Alan Cox\s -ac series of patches?

April 26, 2017Alan Cox Kernels official patches SERIES

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What\s the difference between the official kernels and Alan Cox\s -ac series of patches?

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• (REG, contributed by Erik Mouw) Alan”s kernel can be seen as a test bed for Linus” kernels. While Linus is very conservative and only applies obvious and well tested patches to the 2.4 kernel, Alan maintains a set of kernel patches that contains new concepts, more and/or newer drivers, and more intrusive patches. If the patches prove themselves stable, Alan submits them to Linus to include them into the official kernel.