Regarding mainline builds.

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 03:13:20PM -0700, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK you guys would keep deb packages for the mainline vanilla kernel
> on this url http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ .
> 
> Though lately, I have seen that the mainline kernel build directories
> are suffixed with release code names, e.g. 2.6.35-rc2 is
> v2.6.35-rc3-maverick/
> 
> Are these builds still the vanilla builds or do these have some release
> specific code too ?

The release name indicates the release config which was used to build
it, and therefore the release it is most suited to working with.  This
does not prevent it begin used on other releases generally.  We build
for the closest release version wise by default.

I have added a question to the FAQ and to the mainline builds pageon
this subject:

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds

-apw