From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF5713888F for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1493CE07FB; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0924E07F2 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id t98C51wJ005653 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 08:05:01 -0400 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panick in 4.2.1 from gentoo-sources In-reply-to: <20151008115044.GA1037@greenbeast> References: <3859.1444248780@ccs.covici.com> <9907.1444259636@ccs.covici.com> <23314.1444264483@ccs.covici.com> <15002.1444270348@ccs.covici.com> <20151008115044.GA1037@greenbeast> Comments: In-reply-to Alec Ten Harmsel message dated "Thu, 08 Oct 2015 07:50:44 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <5651.1444305901.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:05:01 -0400 Message-ID: <5652.1444305901@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-t98C511v002763 X-Archives-Salt: 83c5e5a8-231f-4b4e-9dea-c433e39f867e X-Archives-Hash: f2d04b40a2e9b1e5dd3d9a2dffb63348 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:12:28PM -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > Gentoo-sources keywording tends to lag a bit, though I thought they > > > were going to change that. I tend to just keep my own git clone of > > > the kernel tree and checkout from tags. > > > > Do you bother with the gentoo patches? > > I seem to recall the list having a discussion about gentoo-sources vs. > vanilla-sources a while ago, and I believe Rich doesn't use the gentoo > patches. It doesn't seem like he does, since just above he mentions that > he builds and runs kernels from a checkout of a git repo from > kernel.org. > > > I have the kernel tree and none of the tags say longterm, do I have the > > wrong tree or something? The url I have is > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > > The stable tree is > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git. > Only X.Y tags go into Linus' git repo, not X.Y.Z. When they switched > from version 2 to version 3, the numbering scheme changed a bit. Any > kernel version with a third version number is either stable or long > term, and if the last number in the version is more than 8 or 10, it is > probably going to be a long term kernel. > > This is pretty much the rationale that I use for updating - as soon as a > kernel version higher than the one I'm currently running has the last > number in the version hit 8 or 10, I upgrade. OK, that is interesting, I like to use Linus's tree for fooling around, so that tells me something. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com