On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 04:27:35PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > On Tue, 17 May 2016 13:09:03 -0700, Michael Harless said: > > > > > > Eeek, why? What is keeping you from moving to a newer kernel > version? > > > > Why is sticking with 3.14 a good idea for anyone? > > > > > > > > > > It's mainly due to certifications and testing and our upgrade > process. My > > > wish would be to update to a new kernel as well. > > > > That's a very broken certification system, if it allows you to attach > > pretty much random patches onto a "blessed" 3.14 kernel, but won't let > > you upgrade to a newer kernel > > You beat me to it :) > > > Thought Experiment: What happens if you take a standard 3.14 kernel, > and apply > > *every single* patch from 3.15 from Linus's tree except the one that > actually > > tags it as 3.15? > > Hey, wait, some other distro did that once, and guess what, no one > noticed! So other distros finally got wise and just gave up the charade > and now do full kernel updates on incremental releases, with no reported > problems at all (i.e. SuSE and Oracle.) > > So, just grab the 4.4 kernel tree and patch the makefile to say it is > 3.14 and you should pass the certification system just fine! > > I'll look into that. I've also got some 3rd party proprietary drivers (ugh), that I'd have to see would work or not.
--Mike
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