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On 10/4/2024 10:59 AM, vallor wrote:
> $ uname -a
> Linux lm 6.11.1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct  4 07:28:27 PDT 2024 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> real 381.72
> user 17989.30
> sys 3829.71
> 
> ...and "make oldconfig" didn't show any config changes from 6.11.


Linux kernel numbering:
x.y.z.
x is the major release
y is the minor revision
z is the patch number

So long term kernel 4.19.322 went thru a LOT of minor revisions and 
patches before it was released.

Patch 322 alone had 97 commits.  So possibly 10s of thousands of commits 
between minor revisions.

linux-4.19.1.tar.gz     04-Nov-2018 13:57    152M
linux-4.19.322.tar.gz   12-Sep-2024 09:08    152M

How's that same size possible, with all that new code (not all commits 
are added code obviously, so there must have been a LOT of fixes)?

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/


This!  Is!  Linux!