On 19-09-05 15:10:17, Adrian Chiris wrote: > Greetings, > I was wondering what is the guideline in regards to which kernels are supported by OpenStack in the various Linux distributions. > > Looking at [1], Taking for example latest CentOS major (7): > Every "minor" version is released with a different kernel version, > the oldest being released in 2014 (CentOS 7.0, kernel 3.10.0-123) and the newest released in 2018 (CentOS 7.6, kernel 3.10.0-957) > > While I understand that OpenStack projects are expected to support all CentOS 7.x releases. > Does the same applies for the kernels they originally came out with? > > The reason I'm asking, is because I was working on doing some cleanup in neutron [2] for a workaround introduced because of an old kernel bug, > It is unclear to me if it is safe to introduce this change. > > [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/project-testing-interface.html#linux-distributions > [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/677095/ > > Thanks, > Adrian. > For kernel support the way we (gentoo) do it (downstream) is to have checks to make sure the running kernel has the needed modules enabled (either statically or as a module). See the linked ebuild for our syntax (it basically checks /proc/config.gz though). https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/net-misc/openvswitch/openvswitch-2.11.1-r1.ebuild#L39-L54 -- Matthew Thode -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/attachments/20190908/5991f67d/attachment.sig>