On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:07:08 +0100, "Frank Smith" said: > I am a bit confused with upgrading my kernel to a newer minor version. > > My current kernel 4.14 is from > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git , but > there are no minor tags available like 4.14.15. > > I figured out there is another repo on > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git > > Is the second git-url the prefered one?
Depends on what you're looking for. linux-stable is by definition always behind Linus's tree, and has backported patches applied to it. In particular, note that only a subset of patches that go into Linus's tree end up also applied to linux-stable. In fact, in some cases a distro kernel has more fixes applied to it than a later linux-stable - a vendor 4.14.5 can have more vendor-backported fixes than a stock 4.14.8 kernel. So if you're building your own kernel from a git tree, your first question should be "*why* am I building a kernel instead of using the distro kernel?", and decide what git tree based on that.
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