<div dir="ltr">Well, for me the compelling reason would be the same reason to use an LTS kernel over the stock RHEL/CentOS one. The ability to use a less out of date kernel. I think that if enough years pass, people who are wanting to switch away from the kernel that ships with the OS will become less interested in switching to an LTS kernel that is itself several years old. Now, we can always take the most recent source package available for the branch that we want and modify it to compile our own RPMs for the current version of that branch (Like you can currently do if you want a current 4.9 kernel), so it's not like we don't have any options to work around this, but I just thought that an increasingly aging LTS kernel version would begin to become less useful over time.</div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Akemi Yagi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com" target="_blank">amyagi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Shawn Asmussen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shawn.asmussen@gmail.com" target="_blank">shawn.asmussen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">As I understand it, the current policy is to stay with one LTS kernel version until it is EOL'd, and then move to a new one. I was wondering if the recent change to the lifetime of the LTS kernels will affect this policy. As it stands now, with the current policy, the 4.4 kernel would be the version of choice for the elrepo LTS packages for another 4 years.</div></blockquote></span><div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default"><br>Right. </div> <div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default">Looks like kernel-lt 4.4 for el7 will continue until Feb 2022 unless there is a compelling reason to change it to a newer LTS.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default">Akemi<br></div></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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