[Labs-l] building different kernel

Faidon Liambotis faidon at wikimedia.org
Mon Mar 11 13:29:37 UTC 2013


On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 08:32:20AM +0100, Petr Bena wrote:
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog#v3.8_.28Feb_2013.29
> 
> 3.8, 3.7 3.6 - lot of performance fixes
> 3.5, 3.4 3.3 - bug fixes

This is a very naive approach to updating kernels :) I don't see the
point -- and even if I did, I wouldn't go and build my own kernel, but
rather backport a newer kernel from the latest Ubuntu version (3.5 is in
precise-updates, doesn't even need backporting).

Regards,
Faidon



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