From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76CFE158020 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5959BE092A; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 165F5E08FF for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-138-24-20.range86-138.btcentralplus.com ([86.138.24.20] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1oujJm-0006Yd-Al for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:56:46 +0000 Message-ID: <88fa6b3c-c5f3-cd68-cbd8-1633d695e016@youngman.org.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:56:45 +0000 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version Content-Language: en-GB To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <3418bb3d-f939-6606-7e19-5e883c198208@gmail.com> <5f196e3a-9457-4cf5-8e30-431259d41b61@gmail.com> <1840154.CQOukoFCf9@lenovo.localdomain> From: Wol In-Reply-To: <1840154.CQOukoFCf9@lenovo.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a28437ae-23e6-448e-807d-c8ca74c9fd39 X-Archives-Hash: f8d768bd3d8527c991321925c67a810d On 14/11/2022 21:44, Michael wrote: > Shutting down your desktop applications and rebooting with a new kernel takes > no longer than a couple of minutes. I mean even busy bank customer web > portals have planned downtime. There's a lot more to it than that ... The reason I don't run new kernels all the time, is that finding the time to actually copy the old config, make, make modules, make install, fix grub, sort out problems, reboot, is actually quite hard. It's not just a few minutes ... Cheers, Wol