How to locally maintain an end-of-life kernel branch?

[Greg KH]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 01:09:03PM -0700, Michael Harless wrote:
>     I'd recommend just updating to 4.1-stable, it will be easier and cheaper
>     for you in the long run.
> 
> That's probably the next kernel I'll use, unless I can skip to an even later
> one.  I'll still probably run into the same thing though, where I need to
> support that kernel for awhile after it's reached end-of-life, until I get some
> of the other upgrade problems solved.

Please use 4.4 then if you can move, it will "live longer" than 4.1.

> Thanks for the suggestions on following stable and your patches, and giving me
> a better idea of what kind of workload I'm looking forward to.

A lot of work, hopefully your customers are paying you a lot of money to
do it, as it's not going to be easy, or cheap...

good luck!

greg k-h