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Same. RHEL/CentOS went without a hitch. The age of the kernel start’s to concern me, though. According to the top comment in one of the posts in HN even 4.9 an
by gphreak 9y ago
Same. RHEL/CentOS went without a hitch. The age of the kernel start’s to concern me, though.
According to the top comment in one of the posts in HN even 4.9 and 4.4 use a less ideal patch:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085672
I can’t really judge how much RH engineers are capable of fixing that kind of stuff in a kernel that’s officially out of support upstream.
Based on the general quality of RHEL/RHV I trust them to do the right thing, but I have no insight whatsoever in how kernel development actually works.
- snuxoll 9y agoRed Hat pays the salary of a couple kernel developers, backporting security fixes is a pretty big part of their job. Keep in mind, RHEL/CentOS 7 doesn't even use something newer like 4.4 - it's still on 3.10 because Red Hat guarantees a stable kABI throughout the lifetime of a release