[Labs-l] building different kernel

[Petr Bena]

also keep in mind that changelog I sent you is NOT kernel changelog
but btrfs change log - that is not backported into ubuntu, because it
doesn't support it very well

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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