Raj, It can certainly happen that after the upgrade to a vanilla kernel some of the new and exotic hardware (RAID/SAS controllers) might not work or can have bugs. I have had that issue happen. However, since there are so many different distributions, most of the effort is concentrated on producing patches for the vanilla kernel.
Roman Raj Sidh wrote: > Roman, > > Thanks for the reply. I was thinking more in terms of anyone bound by the > requirement to keep the 'Enterprise'ness that enjoy higher stability, well > tested distros (RHEL/CentOS, SUSE, etc) compared to plain kernels + Run Click > router on top. For instance, when I upgrade CentOS 5.3 (based on 2.6.18) to a > higher kernel version (without waiting for, say, CentOS 6), I forgo a number > of wider cherry-picked inter dependent fixes that RedHat had found and fixed. > My new kernel-upgraded CentOS box is now suddenly not enterprise ready > anymore and various drivers (modules and built-in) are now normalized to the > new higher kernel version nullifying RH's changes. This may not be a big > impact on PCs as much as on high end server boxes Dell, HP, etc make. Excuse > me if I have been too wordy above for known facts. Just wanted to be > unambiguous. > > Thanks again. > > Best Regards, > Rajaram > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Roman Chertov <[email protected]> > To: Raj Sidh <[email protected]> > Cc: Click <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:21:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Click] kernel patches for non-vannilla kenels > > Rajaram, > > Typically, people just upgrade the kernel on their distro of choice. I > used to run a CentOS based lab, and I just upgraded the kernel to a > vanilla one that was Click compatible. > > Roman > > Raj Sidh wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What is the process within the Click project/community to contribute working >> click patches for non-vanilla kernels? Like centos, etc. Also is/will there >> be any need for such patches on such enterprise distros, given that Click >> repository already has patch archives for most of the later kernels. Thank >> you. >> >> Best Regards, >> Rajaram >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> click mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click >> > > > > _______________________________________________ click mailing list [email protected] https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click
