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The ghost of sysfs pastThe ghost of sysfs pastPosted Jul 22, 2010 6:45 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)In reply to: The ghost of sysfs past by russell Parent article: The ghost of sysfs past Except that the RHEL kernel is crap for when you want some new things. And there certainly are. Time and again, people pop up in IRC that want, say, TRIM support or Xtables-addons. In reality they are not running RHEL5, but CentOS, and usually so without any support options that would cost them money. And they only do this because some whacky web administrative control panel of sorts exclusively lists RHEL as the only supported Linux OS (not even Fedora or another Enterprise distro like SLES - think of that).
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The ghost of sysfs past Posted Jul 22, 2010 7:49 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
I would note that Cpanel might be whacky but it is extremely popular in the webhosting space resulting in a enormous amount of EL/rebuild deployments. Setting aside that, for various reasons, people do run RHEL with customized kernels including the latest versions and it does not void Red Hat support contracts although people often misunderstand this. Red Hat will ask the customer to check it the problem is reproducible in the kernel that it ships and if it does, Red Hat will want to fix that issue.
The ghost of sysfs past Posted Jul 31, 2010 2:57 UTC (Sat) by walovaton (guest, #57287) [Link]
Mmmm... really? what if there is no way to reproduce the bug with the official kernel because the application simply won't work on that setup? is there any hope for customers in this situation?.
Likewise, is there any support if I take a RHEL 5 box and update PHP to 5.2 or 5.3, or maybe if I decide to downgrade to PHP 4.3 (the same in RHEL 4) because it's really hard for us to test our huge web system and validate it against the newest version of PHP?.
If there is any link on the Red Hat website that explains this kind of scenarios it would be very handy for me and my company.
The ghost of sysfs past Posted Jul 31, 2010 3:34 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
You are better off talking to a support technician directly for specific scenarios.
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