John Newbigin wrote:
I recommend including all available updates including the kernel.
Regarding the kernel and hardware requiring a driver disk. Either the driver will still be ABI compatible with any new kernel installed at 'run time' - or - the driver is not compatible and a new driver is required regardless.
The only issue to investigate is any artificial restrictions on driver disks imposed by anaconda.
I have not used a driver disk since RHEL7.2 so I don't know what issues might lie there.
most DD's check for a specific kernel version, i think its going to be a while before the whole kernel-abi / whitelisting / updagrate route for DD's becomes mainstream - till such time, imho we should stick with release kernels for iso spins.
- KB