On 08/04/18 09:14 PM, Simon Lees wrote:
You may for example have a new fancy device that wasn't originally supported in upstream kernel 4.12 but is supported in kernel 4.15, there is a reasonable chance that a SUSE engineer somewhere may have already ported support for that device into SUSE/openSUSE's version of kernel 4.12, so in this way and many others including security fixes just looking at the kernel number is wrong without also looking at which source "tree" the kernel has been built from.
Since many of us don't read code and aren't interesting in pulling down the code and doing a 3-way comparison to see what in 4,15 has been back-ported by SUSE engineers into the SUSE 4.12 and how it differs from stock 4.12, where does SUSE document all these back-port, by date, high level description, change order number, testing and such? Right now, it hardly seems worth it if I'm not under SLES/SLED contract and am using openSUSE so I'll stick to kernel:stable. George seems happy with that for his laptop. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org