On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:12:28PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Gentoo-sources keywording tends to lag a bit, though I thought they > > were going to change that. I tend to just keep my own git clone of > > the kernel tree and checkout from tags. > > Do you bother with the gentoo patches?
I seem to recall the list having a discussion about gentoo-sources vs. vanilla-sources a while ago, and I believe Rich doesn't use the gentoo patches. It doesn't seem like he does, since just above he mentions that he builds and runs kernels from a checkout of a git repo from kernel.org. > I have the kernel tree and none of the tags say longterm, do I have the > wrong tree or something? The url I have is > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git The stable tree is git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git. Only X.Y tags go into Linus' git repo, not X.Y.Z. When they switched from version 2 to version 3, the numbering scheme changed a bit. Any kernel version with a third version number is either stable or long term, and if the last number in the version is more than 8 or 10, it is probably going to be a long term kernel. This is pretty much the rationale that I use for updating - as soon as a kernel version higher than the one I'm currently running has the last number in the version hit 8 or 10, I upgrade. Alec
