Long-term support and backport risk [LWN.net]

Long-term support and backport risk

Posted Jun 21, 2007 4:28 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: Long-term support and backport risk by error27
Parent article: Long-term support and backport risk

the driver disk model breaks down once you have to update the libata core to have the latest sata work, or to update drm to have the latest graphics work. If it were just drivers, it's one thing. but in general it spans wider the longer the time lag is.

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Long-term support and backport risk

Posted Jun 21, 2007 8:22 UTC (Thu) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]

Sometimes you do have to patch the kernel core, but most hardware support can be dealt with through driver disks.

As far as I could see, RHEL3 had pretty recent libata. The last RHEL3 driver disk I created was for the 3ware 9550 which was pretty new at the time. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I patched the libata module in one driver disk so that's a possible option.

It is a problem dealing with kernel upgrades after the install, that's true.

I'm generally happy with RHEL.