On 13/11/15 12:27, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
That.... is so many major revisions ahead it cannot reasonably be in the mainline kernels for CentOS. 7, which had a base kernel of 3.10.0. Remember that CentOS, Scientific Linux, and the old Whitebox are all rebuilds of the commercial RHEL, and RHEL has a 10 year supported lifespan. Red Hat, upstream, *cannot* do major kernel upgrades in the main repositories without potentially breaking core features such as systemd, real-time kernel support, virtualization, and vendor supported storage controllers. It takes serous testing to release a commercial kernel, it's not cheap:
For the main line distro, that is true - but in the CentOS Space, we have lots of provisions to help curate layered and external content as well. We already host a huge amount of content in that space, and have much larger infra dedicated to this ( including build, test, release ).
The key to working out a plan for Uday's kernel is going to be driven by how he intends to support it and do maintenance work in that space.
regards,