Am Donnerstag, 15. September 2016, 07:54:26 CEST schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: > On 2016-09-15 05:49, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > On 09/15/2016 04:14 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: […] > I specifically do not think we should worry about distro kernels though. > If someone is using a specific distro, that distro's documentation > should cover what they support and what works and what doesn't. Some > (like Arch and to a lesser extent Gentoo) use almost upstream kernels, > so there's very little point in tracking them. Some (like Ubuntu and > Debian) use almost upstream LTS kernels, so there's little point > tracking them either. Many others though (like CentOS, RHEL, and OEL) > Use forked kernels that have so many back-ported patches that it's > impossible to track up-date to up-date what the hell they've got. A > rather ridiculous expression regarding herding of cats comes to mind > with respect to the last group.
Yep. I just read through RHEL releasenotes for a RHEL 7 workshop I will hold for a customer… and noted that newer RHEL 7 kernels for example have device mapper from Kernel 4.1 (while the kernel still says its a 3.10 one), XFS from kernel this.that, including new incompat CRC disk format and the need to also upgrade xfsprogs in lockstep, and this and that from kernel this.that and so on. Frankenstein as an association comes to my mind, but I bet RHEL kernel engineers know what they are doing. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
