new kernels come very often in current, is it safe to blacklist?
by slackmensch from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KEAK)
Do most people running current really bother with all these kernel upgrades? I've only been using Slackware for a little over a month, and the kernel updates come fast and furious. I'm thinking of blacklisting and staying at 5.12.12 for a while.
(btw, is there any compelling reason to muck about with initrd and generic kernels? Saving a tiny amount of RAM and like maybe 2 seconds of boot time is not important to me. I've just been using the huge kernel.)
I've found no detectable difference in how my desktop home system runs, except when going from 5.10.X to 5.12.X broke compilation of openzfs. The latest openzfs in git compiled without issue.
What is changing so much? I mean, I on the one hand I don't want to miss out on some show-stopping bugfix like when there was that trim corruption bug that you might not notice until it had corrupted the right files to really bork your system. (I was a lucky Samsung SSD owner.) But on the other hand, updating and rebooting a couple times a week is getting crazy. Usually the slackware Changelog does not cite reasons for kernel updates.
(btw, is there any compelling reason to muck about with initrd and generic kernels? Saving a tiny amount of RAM and like maybe 2 seconds of boot time is not important to me. I've just been using the huge kernel.)
I've found no detectable difference in how my desktop home system runs, except when going from 5.10.X to 5.12.X broke compilation of openzfs. The latest openzfs in git compiled without issue.
What is changing so much? I mean, I on the one hand I don't want to miss out on some show-stopping bugfix like when there was that trim corruption bug that you might not notice until it had corrupted the right files to really bork your system. (I was a lucky Samsung SSD owner.) But on the other hand, updating and rebooting a couple times a week is getting crazy. Usually the slackware Changelog does not cite reasons for kernel updates.