[Arm-dev] Thanks for the new armv7hl kernel

Fabian Arrotin arrfab at centos.org
Thu Jun 15 14:06:37 UTC 2017


On 15/06/17 14:58, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Anything to note about the new kernelll?
> 

Nothing special (and not Critical CVE either that I could see in that
LTS branch), but as Johnny built a newer one for AltArch/i686 I decided
to also rebase to latest from kernel LTS branch

> Trivial question, why is it 4.9.30-203 and not 4.9.30-204, replacing
> 4.9.13-203?

The important bit is 4.9.30 vs 4.9.13 (the rest is for rpm versioning)

> 
> Also how do people claim to have the linux box up for 6 mo or more when
> kernel updates come out more frequently than that?  Not that I mind
> having to install a new kernel...

It's up to each admin to decide if they want to reboot on newer kernel
or not :-)
-- 
Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
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