[Arm-dev] Thanks for the new armv7hl kernel

Fri Jun 16 20:02:03 UTC 2017
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


On 06/15/2017 10:06 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> 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 :-)

Why does /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf not get updated when a new kernel 
is installed?

I probably should learn on how to create a menu, as all I do is a simple 
sed command to replace the old kernel with the new since there is no 
menuing control? in a kernel update.