1 May
2010
1 May
'10
8:51 p.m.
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:44:49PM -0400, maillists0@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering whether the standard "make oldconfig" would work when making a version jump this large. Are my drivers likely to break?
*All* bets are off with this. It's unsupported and for good reason. Redhat has, literally, *many hundreds* of patches in the kernels they ship that the vanilla kernel kits don't provide, it is entirely likely hardware support is different including drivers.
John
--
When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are
too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers,
there can be no justice.
-- Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 - 26 March 1976), Chinese writer and translator,
as quoted in Alexander, James (2005). The World's Funniest Laws. Cheam: Crombie
Jardine. pp. page 6