Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrades on older versions

On 07/07/11 17:25, kanenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 07:37:44 pm Per Jessen wrote:
kanenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
It seems that there are a few stallwarts out there, yours truly one of
us, who still use suse 11.3, 11.2, 11.1 and even 10.x as the main os.
Most of these os's are out of maintenance, so a kernel upgrade would
have to be manual. If you have upgraded the kernel in an out of
maintenance system, can you please post a comment or two on the
result?
Nothing much to say except it's no big deal. Get the kernel source you
want, configure it using the existing config.gz as a base, then build
and install. Recreate initrd.


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Per Jessen, Zürich (18.8°C)
Thanks Per,
actually the question is more about the after effects of a kernel upgrade
rather than the mechanics of it.

Which of course is one of the biggest pains in the ass when one tries to answer a question from people: they think that the reader of their question is a psychic and/or a mind reader and knows exactly what the person is talking about when asking for help.

Against my better judgement, yesterday I got involved in trying to help a person with a problem. Getting information to be able to help this person is like pulling teeth :-( . As she is a 'friend' of my wife's so now I have to be diplomatic about how I tell her to "pull her finger out" and provide the info I need :-( .

Why didn't you simply state the above to begin with? That you want to know the "after effects" and not "the mechanics" of doing a kernel upgrade?

You just wasted Per's time in responding to you, and mine in for pointing this out to you.


the two basic reasons for an upgrade are of
course security and functionality. sooo, has it worked?
Have the people stayed with an updated kernel? what problems were encountered?
any regressions ? any great improvements?
fyi, the os this posting is coming thru is 11.1 and uname gives me the last
official kernel for it: 2.6.27.56-0.1-default ! i have played with
upgrades in test partirions, also played with 11.3 and 11.4 in tests, now i
am considering an upgrade of the basic os. And I was thinking that perhaps a
kernel upgrade might provide almost all the benefits of a later os, without
all the hassles. or is that wrong?
d.

BC

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