[Labs-l] building different kernel

[Petr Bena]

why should I backport stuff into old kernel? when I can just use the
latest version? This is something I would expect from distribution
maintainer but not end user. There is nothing what should get broken
by running 3.8.x

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Faidon Liambotis <faidon at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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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