Re: Upgrading to 2.6.32

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On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:44:49PM -0400, maillists0@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I was wondering whether the standard "make oldconfig" would work when making
> a version jump this large.  Are my drivers likely to break?

       *All* bets are off with this.  It's unsupported and for good
       reason.  Redhat has, literally, *many hundreds* of patches in the
       kernels they ship that the vanilla kernel kits don't provide,
       it is entirely likely hardware support is different including
       drivers.


That's exactly what I was wondering about. That said, I'm willing to sort through it all if I can just find the right docs, but I'm just inexperienced enough that I don't know where to start looking.

Redhat has a kernel src rpm available. Is that patched? If I started with the vanilla kernel, where might I find guidance on how to apply the Redhat patches? Is this a completely crazy idea?  
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