Re: source vs. sourcecode

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:11:25AM -0700, Erik Espinoza wrote:
> Odd, always assumed that people who built their own kernel would hit
> kernel.org up. I always thought that kernel-source package was for
> building modules against your kernel such as with ndiswrapper and what
> not.

Its pretty much essential for any serious user to have the source so
they can put back any drivers that randomly disappear, or drivers Arjan
refuses to add even though they are needed (ide-scsi etc). You are
right in a way however - its kernel*.src.rpm that is useful not kernel-source.

Alan