Best practice to upgrade kernel
Hi all, I have a newbie question. I’m using a 3.18.66 kernel branch from Qualcomm. Over the year I’ve applied some of patched here and there manually. But It seems Qualcomm does not patch lot of newly released vulnerabilities. I would love to upgrade to the latest 3.18.138 (not 4.x) What is the best practice here? Thanks -Dan
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:17:24 -0700, Xiaolong Wang said:
I have a newbie question. I’m using a 3.18.66 kernel branch from Qualcomm. Over the year I’ve applied some of patched here and there manually.
But It seems Qualcomm does not patch lot of newly released vulnerabilities. I would love to upgrade to the latest 3.18.138 (not 4.x)
What is the best practice here?
Since you're being forced by Qualcomm to use 3.18, take it up with them. What's this? You say you're not forced to do it? Well, there's two things you can do: 1) Continue feeling the pain of running an old kernel 2) Fix the reason you're on 3.18, and get on a 4.x or 5.x kernel. Your choice.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 11:17:24AM -0700, Xiaolong Wang wrote:
Hi all,
I have a newbie question. I’m using a 3.18.66 kernel branch from Qualcomm. Over the year I’ve applied some of patched here and there manually.
But It seems Qualcomm does not patch lot of newly released vulnerabilities. I would love to upgrade to the latest 3.18.138 (not 4.x)
What is the best practice here?
Merge your branch with the android-common 3.18 branch, and try to run that. Note, there will be some conflicts, and I think there's a random qualcomm branch somewhere on code aurora somewhere that has those problems resolved if you have problems with them. good luck, it's possible to do (I have a phone running the latest 3.18 release on it with a qcom chipset), but it all depends on exactly what device you have as to how easy/hard it is going to be! greg k-h
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