On 2018-07-29 19:39, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/29/2018 08:01 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It has been explained many times.
openSUSE uses the SUSE (SLES) kernel, and this one, once a candidate version is chosen, undergoes a period of testing with paying customers to verify that it works with them. This process takes months, thousands of man-hours and on sites. They are not going to repeat the costly process just because there is a new kernel upstream.
An off the shelf kernel can not be used unless upstream does that costly testing (certification) procedure.
That was the point, if 4.0.4 worked, then those capabilities would still be in 4.14, they wouldn't disappear? By the time a kernel is a year old, it is one on the most tested pieces of software world wide. There is nothing that makes suse customer machines any different from redhat customer machines. Further, there would be no need for the massive back-porting of new capabilities and security fixes to the old kernel, and customers with new hardware are supported out-of-the-box.
They would still have to re-certify the new kernel. You say it works, the client want that in written with a contract that pays so many millions if something happens to not work for whatever reason. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)