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PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 5:31 pm    Post subject: Anyone know the reason why stable is still kernel 4.14? Reply with quote

The subversion number is approaching triple digits. I've not seen that ever since migrating from suse years and years ago.
Is there a reason why gentoo has not stabilized any newer kernels?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

truekaiser,

Its the newest LTS kernel on kernel.org.
Gentoo only stables LTS kernels.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
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Its the newest LTS kernel on kernel.org.
Gentoo only stables LTS kernels.



Since when ? I am pretty sure it was not the case sometime before
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmpogo,

Its been that way for a while now. There was a discussion about it on one of the mailing lists.
It boils down to what is practical with the effort available.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
dmpogo,

Its been that way for a while now. There was a discussion about it on one of the mailing lists.
It boils down to what is practical with the effort available.


I can understand the reasons, it is just I clearly remember when stable was not that far from what linux-kernel called stable (though a bit behind),
but for LTS you had to dig way back to find which one is actually LTS. Missed the policy change.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Anyone know the reason why stable is still kernel 4.14? Reply with quote

truekaiser wrote:
The subversion number is approaching triple digits. I've not seen that ever since migrating from suse years and years ago.
Is there a reason why gentoo has not stabilized any newer kernels?


New kernel need new work, many included functions need tests to work properly, while new kernel would tested many bug and them pathces can raise minor version number.

If minor number is high - than harder to find bugs in code. So moments of stability would go longer - Long-Term Support

Im still testing 4.0.x ck-kernel at home and 4.4.x kernel at work))
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
Its been that way for a while now. There was a discussion about it on one of the mailing lists.
It boils down to what is practical with the effort available.
Damn, that is a terrible policy, as a moment's thought shows.
Thanks for the heads-up, across media, guyz.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nvidia-drivers doesn't even work on 4.19 which should be the next lts once greg tags it as such.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bunder wrote:
nvidia-drivers doesn't even work on 4.19 which should be the next lts once greg tags it as such.


but the latest stable nvidia is 396.54 which only need a kernel of 4.6.x. The newer nvidia needs 4.20.x so at least there is consistency... but determining stability of the kernel against LTS does mean other packages will be held back... *IF* you wish to run a stable tree

For the kernel it sort of make sense that LTS is deemed as stable unfortunately... The kernel is the base of all our systems and it depends on itself (and gcc...) everything upstream officially releases could be deemed as stable. Now everything above it... init, daemons, userland starts having more intricate interactions and thus the concept of "stable" is a bit more convoluted.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naib wrote:
bunder wrote:
nvidia-drivers doesn't even work on 4.19 which should be the next lts once greg tags it as such.


but the latest stable nvidia is 396.54 which only need a kernel of 4.6.x. The newer nvidia needs 4.20.x so at least there is consistency... but determining stability of the kernel against LTS does mean other packages will be held back... *IF* you wish to run a stable tree

For the kernel it sort of make sense that LTS is deemed as stable unfortunately... The kernel is the base of all our systems and it depends on itself (and gcc...) everything upstream officially releases could be deemed as stable. Now everything above it... init, daemons, userland starts having more intricate interactions and thus the concept of "stable" is a bit more convoluted.


From what i understand you want people to either run the stable tree or full unstable. Stuff like this will cause people to start mix and matching packages which from experience causes problems..
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's not so true for the kernel. Use whatever version you see fit for your hardware support, regardless of 'Gentoo stable' status. The only thing this does is promising fast updates in case of security issues.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

truekaiser wrote:
Naib wrote:
bunder wrote:
nvidia-drivers doesn't even work on 4.19 which should be the next lts once greg tags it as such.


but the latest stable nvidia is 396.54 which only need a kernel of 4.6.x. The newer nvidia needs 4.20.x so at least there is consistency... but determining stability of the kernel against LTS does mean other packages will be held back... *IF* you wish to run a stable tree

For the kernel it sort of make sense that LTS is deemed as stable unfortunately... The kernel is the base of all our systems and it depends on itself (and gcc...) everything upstream officially releases could be deemed as stable. Now everything above it... init, daemons, userland starts having more intricate interactions and thus the concept of "stable" is a bit more convoluted.


From what i understand you want people to either run the stable tree or full unstable. Stuff like this will cause people to start mix and matching packages which from experience causes problems..

I didn't imply anything like that ..
What I am saying is there is some logic in using lts for the kernel. Likewise just networking the kernel isn't going to cause some crazy keywoeding Frankenstein of a systen
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naib wrote:
bunder wrote:
nvidia-drivers doesn't even work on 4.19 which should be the next lts once greg tags it as such.


but the latest stable nvidia is 396.54


i listen to what nvidia tells me to use, and for my 980 they tell me to use 410.73.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bunder wrote:
nvidia-drivers doesn't even work on 4.19 which should be the next lts once greg tags it as such.


:?

Code:
╭─root@Otherness /home/rasalom 
╰─# emerge -p gentoo-sources

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.19.1
╭─root@Otherness /home/rasalom 
╰─# emerge -p nvidia-drivers

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-410.73
╭─root@Otherness /home/rasalom 
╰─# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vmnet                  49152  13
vmmon                 102400  0
nvidia_drm             40960  4
nvidia_modeset       1003520  7 nvidia_drm
nvidia              16048128  262 nvidia_modeset

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bunder wrote:
nvidia-drivers doesn't even work on 4.19 which should be the next lts once greg tags it as such.

Yes it does... CONFIG_PM
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh you're right, 410.73 does, but 410.66 doesn't. :D
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naib wrote:
For the kernel it sort of make sense that LTS is deemed as stable unfortunately...
No, it does not.
Everyone knows damn well that LTS lags ages behind the main kernel. Once it's out, you can count on support, not on backpatches you might well need, even if backpatches in general are a necessary requirement of providing support.
Naib wrote:
The kernel is the base of all our systems and it depends on itself (and gcc...) everything upstream officially releases could be deemed as stable.
Yes, truism that does not shed any light.. if this is your idea of "logic", it's a good thing you are not required to implement logic, only specification.
Personally, I'd check whether you even know what logic really is, were I talking so much nonsense and pretending it were "logic".
Naib wrote:
Now everything above it... init, daemons, userland starts having more intricate interactions and thus the concept of "stable" is a bit more convoluted.
And completely irrelevant to the discussion about kernel-stability.
But hey, a bit of irrelevant fluff to pad the "argument" is what passes for "logic" amongst the Neo-Logika.

Top marks for conformity as an "indIVIdual" amongst so many. ("And what do points make people?")

As for logic, you have not presented any, which makes any position you now argue, far less credible.
Token logic, as with token form and token confidence, is no such thing; we merely label it such to dismiss it as phantasm.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
dmpogo,

Its been that way for a while now. There was a discussion about it on one of the mailing lists.
It boils down to what is practical with the effort available.



BTW, I am not sure it was for so much 'while' (but mind you, I am old enough so that 2-3 years for me is not 'while' but yesterday :) ).
I think getting up to 4.9 stable was still closer to old model, but then it was that snag with stabilizing 4.12, then withdrawing it, then waiting to stabilize 4.14 where we got lost.
In all expectation 4.18 should have been stable now.

I came to gentoo in 2004 because it was the distribution that had support for 64-bit, while Fedora hadn't yet. And support was in a 'stable' kernel (one of very early 2.6 ones)
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For my situation I am very thankfull/happy, for 4.14 being LTS supported. Reason is, that my damn hoster of my vps only supporting kernel <4.15, as they need to update their hosting system first - based on parallels / virtuozzo - to support newer kernels. So either they will bring their hosts to a level where more recent kernels are supported, or I will have to evaluate an other hoster and migrate my little vps one day, when 4.14 LTS support exceeds. :)
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Elleni wrote:
For my situation I am very thankfull/happy, for 4.14 being LTS supported. Reason is, that my damn hoster of my vps only supporting kernel <4.15, as they need to update their hosting system first - based on parallels / virtuozzo - to support newer kernels. So either they will bring their hosts to a level where more recent kernels are supported, or I will have to evaluate an other hoster and migrate my little vps one day, when 4.14 LTS support exceeds. :)


Well, 4.14 will certainly be supported longer than 4.18 :) And actually, 4.9 is expected to be supported longer than either 4.14 or 4.19

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmpogo wrote:
Elleni wrote:
For my situation I am very thankfull/happy, for 4.14 being LTS supported. Reason is, that my damn hoster of my vps only supporting kernel <4.15, as they need to update their hosting system first - based on parallels / virtuozzo - to support newer kernels. So either they will bring their hosts to a level where more recent kernels are supported, or I will have to evaluate an other hoster and migrate my little vps one day, when 4.14 LTS support exceeds. :)


Well, 4.14 will certainly be supported longer than 4.18 :) And actually, 4.9 is expected to be supported longer than either 4.14 or 4.19

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Its almost like they don't know how to LTS...
4.19 - 2year
4.14 - 3years
4.9 - 7years
4.4 - 6years
3.16 - 6years

(even worse than that, I just can't be arsed dealing with the remaining months...)
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LTS depends on organisation/individual's commitment to it. Those extended time frames need not necessarily have been planned when a version was first declared LTS.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naib wrote:
dmpogo wrote:
Elleni wrote:
For my situation I am very thankfull/happy, for 4.14 being LTS supported. Reason is, that my damn hoster of my vps only supporting kernel <4.15, as they need to update their hosting system first - based on parallels / virtuozzo - to support newer kernels. So either they will bring their hosts to a level where more recent kernels are supported, or I will have to evaluate an other hoster and migrate my little vps one day, when 4.14 LTS support exceeds. :)


Well, 4.14 will certainly be supported longer than 4.18 :) And actually, 4.9 is expected to be supported longer than either 4.14 or 4.19

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Its almost like they don't know how to LTS...
4.19 - 2year
4.14 - 3years
4.9 - 7years
4.4 - 6years
3.16 - 6years

(even worse than that, I just can't be arsed dealing with the remaining months...)

B.R.B., moving back to the 4.9 tree. :lol:
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naib wrote:
dmpogo wrote:
Elleni wrote:
For my situation I am very thankfull/happy, for 4.14 being LTS supported. Reason is, that my damn hoster of my vps only supporting kernel <4.15, as they need to update their hosting system first - based on parallels / virtuozzo - to support newer kernels. So either they will bring their hosts to a level where more recent kernels are supported, or I will have to evaluate an other hoster and migrate my little vps one day, when 4.14 LTS support exceeds. :)


Well, 4.14 will certainly be supported longer than 4.18 :) And actually, 4.9 is expected to be supported longer than either 4.14 or 4.19

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Its almost like they don't know how to LTS...
4.19 - 2year
4.14 - 3years
4.9 - 7years
4.4 - 6years
3.16 - 6years

(even worse than that, I just can't be arsed dealing with the remaining months...)


I bet it also depends on organizational adoption. If some big RedHat client want longer support - I think that LTS kernel version will get longer support.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

4.4 it is good kernel, but next 4.9 - need to read changelog

Maybe 4.9 much modern, but now latest 4.4.164 looks better than 4.9.140
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