Red Hat stable kernels [LWN.net]

Red Hat stable kernels

Posted Jul 5, 2022 22:21 UTC (Tue) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: Red Hat stable kernels by willy
Parent article: An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes

Depends on the directory. Large parts of the RHEL9 kernel are probably closer to 5.16 even.

to post comments

Red Hat stable kernels

Posted Jul 6, 2022 7:43 UTC (Wed) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (3 responses)

I think of the Red Hat way of doing things less as "shipping older kernels" and more as "lying about version numbers".

Red Hat stable kernels

Posted Jul 6, 2022 10:14 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

Well it’s more like doing the work before others, what you see in LTS kernels will have often been exercised as a rh patch in their own products.

Red Hat stable kernels

Posted Jul 6, 2022 15:00 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

Yes that's pretty accurate. :)

Red Hat stable kernels

Posted Jul 7, 2022 12:41 UTC (Thu) by hkario (subscriber, #94864) [Link]

The package version indicates the oldest piece of code as-shipped-upstream in a particular package, it doesn't tell what's the newest piece is. And in particular, the kernel commonly pulls in new versions of whole subsytems, not just individual patches.