Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:52:49 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: [alpine-devel] 3.4 kernel for v2.4 stable?
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Hi,

I wonder if we should upgrade to 3.4.x kernel for v2.4

This is not something we normally do.

Pros:
* The current 3.3.x kernel is no longer maintained upstream
* The 3.4 kernel is announced it for longterm support, 2 years. [1]
* We are not the first switching from v3.3 to v3.4. Fedora 17 already
  did.

Cons:
* Risk for unexpected breakages.
* We still have to backport grsecurity patches since they are not
  supported from grsecurity.net anymore.

The 3.4 kernel is already in edge and the 120820 edge snapshot ISO has
it. It would be nice if we could get feedback if that kernel works or
not. (I use it on my desktop and laptop now - so far no issues)

Any good reason to not upgrade to 3.4 kernel?

Thanks!

[1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1208.2/02624.html



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