[CentOS-devel] a mainline kernel in centos repos

Sun Feb 8 02:06:43 UTC 2015
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Tim Verhoeven
<tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Johnny thought so, too. :-) And he created and has been maintaining
the 3.10 kernel for Xen4CentOS for CentOS-6. The same should be easily
done for a newer version.

Akemi