> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:50:34AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes: > > > huh? you don't need a dkms package for btrfs - it's built-in to the > > > mainline kernel, and has been for quite a while. > > > > Except then if you have an old (stable) kernel, you also have an old > > btrfs. > > that's a problem with an easy answer: "Don't Do That, Then!" > > really, just compile the latest kernel or use a backported kernel > package for the distro of your choice. > > messing around with dkms just to avoid doing that strikes me as > being somewhat insane (perhaps due to excessive exposure to overly > bureaucratic change management processes - you're not allowed to > change the kernel so you have to pretend you're not actually changing > the kernel, you're just updating one filesystem driver in it and then > pretending that nothing else could possibly be affected) >
Using a kernel that you know works perfectly well and backporting a few specific changes/fixes into it is an entirely reasonable thing to do. James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
