[CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM,  <maillists0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the 2.618 kernel to a shiny new 2.6.32
> > kernel. Anyone done it? Is it possible? Are there gotcha's to watch out
> for?
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated. A link to a decent howto would be awesome.
>
> You did not tell us why you want to run 2.6.32 on CentOS 5.4. I assume
> you are aware of backporting and 2.6.18 is not the same as vanilla
> kernel 2.6.18.
>
> Having said that, if you really, really need to run/build such a new
> kernel, I advice you read through this CentOS forum thread in its
> entirety:
>
>
> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=23627&forum=37
>
>
Thanks, Akemi. I really want to try the fs-cache feature to make an nfs
caching proxy. It would be a godsend.

I was wondering whether the standard "make oldconfig" would work when making
a version jump this large.  Are my drivers likely to break?
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