On 10/23/2013 03:44 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
Hi all,
I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you use on your CentOS machines? Not which version of the CentOS kernel, but which repository. Here are some examples I can think of off the top of my head:
==CentOS stock
I use stock for most installs, always latest patch level. Exception is an ASUS laptop that I occasionally use an ELRepo kernel on to test out the various function key support, I have a number of backported drivers from these later kernels to enable the backlit keyboard etc on the stock kernels - with the kabi (?) kernel tracking, once these drivers are created they then work with the stock kernel + patched updates i.e. 6.3 to 6.4.
==build own from CentOS SRPMs ==kernel-ml (from ELRepo) ==kernel-lt (from ELRepo) ==OpenVZ kernel ==build own from kernel.org ==other?
One reason I'm curious is that on occasion there are features that I would like to have from a newer kernel (e.g., --want-replacement from md) that (AFAICT) are not in the stock CentOS kernel. I've been using kernel-ml for these but am curious what other folks do in these situations, or whether people default to a different kernel for whatever reason.
(And as an aside, who remembers when moving even from, say, a 1.2 to a 1.4 kernel, was an enormous amount of effort? I'm so old. Now anybody can go from a 2.6 to a 3.11 kernel in less than ten minutes!)
--keith