[Click] kernel patches for non-vannilla kenels

[Roman Chertov]

Raj,

It can certainly happen that after the upgrade to a vanilla kernel some
of the new and exotic hardware (RAID/SAS controllers) might not work or
can have bugs.   I have had that issue happen.  However, since there are
so many different distributions, most of the effort is concentrated on
producing patches for the vanilla kernel.

Roman

Raj Sidh wrote:
> Roman,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I was thinking more in terms of anyone bound by the requirement to keep the 'Enterprise'ness that enjoy higher stability, well tested distros (RHEL/CentOS, SUSE, etc) compared to plain kernels + Run Click router on top. For instance, when I upgrade CentOS 5.3 (based on 2.6.18) to a higher kernel version (without waiting for, say, CentOS 6), I forgo a number of wider cherry-picked inter dependent fixes that RedHat had found and fixed. My new kernel-upgraded CentOS box is now suddenly not enterprise ready anymore and various drivers (modules and built-in) are now normalized to the new higher kernel version nullifying RH's changes. This may not be a big impact on PCs as much as on high end server boxes Dell, HP, etc make. Excuse me if I have been too wordy above for known facts. Just wanted to be unambiguous.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Rajaram
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Roman Chertov <rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu>
> To: Raj Sidh <rajaram_s at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Click <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:21:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Click] kernel patches for non-vannilla kenels
> 
> Rajaram,
> 
> Typically, people just upgrade the kernel on their distro of choice.  I
> used to run a CentOS based lab, and I just upgraded the kernel to a
> vanilla one that was Click compatible.
> 
> Roman
> 
> Raj Sidh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the process within the Click project/community to contribute working click patches for non-vanilla kernels? Like centos, etc. Also is/will there be any need for such patches on such enterprise distros, given that Click repository already has patch archives for most of the later kernels. Thank you.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Rajaram
>>
>>
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