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