Kernelupdate

[valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:07:08 +0100, "Frank Smith" said:

> I am a bit confused with upgrading my kernel to a newer minor version.
>
> My current kernel 4.14 is from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git , but there are no minor tags available like 4.14.15.
>
> I figured out there is another repo on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
>
> Is the second git-url the prefered one?

Depends on what you're looking for.  linux-stable is by definition always
behind Linus's tree, and has backported patches applied to it.

In particular, note that only a subset of patches that go into Linus's tree end
up also applied to linux-stable.  In fact, in some cases a distro kernel has more
fixes applied to it than a later linux-stable - a vendor 4.14.5 can have more
vendor-backported fixes than a stock 4.14.8 kernel.

So if you're building your own kernel from a git tree, your first question should
be "*why* am I building a kernel instead of using the distro kernel?", and decide
what git tree based on that.

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