On 01/05/2015 11:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 1/5/2015 9:24 PM, Darby Vicker wrote:
He is suggesting I get in touch with the people who maintain the CentOS kernel.
that would be Red Hat, unless you're talking about the CentOS Plus kernel....
This is correct .. we rebuild the RHEL 6.6 kernel source code as is, if this is a kernel problem, we don't change it.
But .. IF the kernel does NEED a change, then the CentOSPlus kernel would be the place where we have the ability to add patches and change something. We don't change the base OS kernel except to remove branding.
AKemi Yagi is our CentOS Plus maintainer, and bug/patch requests can be entered here:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586
But, we do not provide technical support .. we have a community forum and bugs system to allow the community to discuss and solve problems. We will try/roll in patches (into CentOS Plus kernel) to try and fix problems if a solution is proposed by the community. However, we don't do the research or development.
What I am trying to convey is that CentOS rebuilds upstream source code and provides resources for the community to solve their own problems. CentOS does not provide SLA level support. That is what RHEL is for.
We will be glad to help the community find the problem, and feed back the fix upstream to Red Hat so they can fix it in RHEL and then we can roll it into our main OS kernel. And we will provide a temporary fix in the CentOS Plus kernel.