[CentOS-devel] a mainline kernel in centos repos

[Tim Verhoeven]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lots of people in various SIGs and user side projects are keen on
> bringing up a mainline kernel, that tracks upstream closer than the
> distro kernel does.
>
> I'd like to start a conversation around which kernel we might be able to
> maintain as a group, that also helps most people solve the problems they
> are looking at.
>
> 3.18 seems to be the stable-release at the moment, but given that 3.19
> is just around the corner, should we try and aim for that ?

Hi,

The biggest question is indeed what version the SIG's need. Are they
ok with the latest longterm release (currently 3.14) or do they want
the latest stable (currently 3.18)
(https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html)? Ideally we can get
everyone agree on one specific kernel.

The elrepo kernel seem like a nice starting point to do this. So it
would be nice if we can work together on this.

So SIG's, what kernel do you need?

My vote would be on at last 3.14 or higher. I would like to tryout
Ceph in the future and this is their requirement.

Kind regards,
Tim