On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > I did try to take later kernel modules and back-port them to an older > kernel. > Sometimes it works... The only benefit is that one does not need to make > huge > upgrades (kernel, modules, clib, other libs, etc) but now you are running > on > an ad hoc system and uncharted territory. Sounds like a thing a Slackware > user > would do... but not too often. in my experience using a newer kernel together with an older userspace almost always just works (indeed openvz et al rely on this), tho i confess my experience has rarely included module issues, if i had a reason to i'd try keeping the module heirarchy together with a new kernel and try them with the rest of everything being an older userspace. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180809/98ce28c6/attachment-0001.html>