Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:10 AM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm back to my old kernel tho since my nvidia-drivers won't work with a
>> kernel that high.  I run into this on rare occasions.
> They are only rare because you aren't updating regularly.
>
> If you want to run external kernel modules like nvidia-drivers or zfs,
> stick to a longterm kernel.  The ABI changes all the time, and so
> there will frequently be stable kernel version changes that break
> nvidia-drivers.  Then there will be a lag before nvidia-drivers
> supports the new stable kernel.  In the meantime you can't run the
> latest version, and that can mean security issues.
>
> The longterm kernels rarely break nvidia-drivers and get all the
> security and other fixes.  They just don't get new features.
>

Well, I was calling how often this has happened since around 2003 or so
when I started using Linux.  I think this has happened maybe two or
three times.  While they always say they don't support above a certain
version, usually it just works.  This time, not so much. 

I did build a 5.19 version tho.  I haven't rebooted yet tho.  May be a
while.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-)