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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version
From:       Rich Freeman <rich0 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2022-11-21 12:20:53
Message-ID: CAGfcS_mdLdw-QJM24azgEE89MKwb9PJrrJxD_E0uYBPd6tJ0dg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:10 AM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm back to my old kernel tho since my nvidia-drivers won't work with a
> kernel that high.  I run into this on rare occasions.

They are only rare because you aren't updating regularly.

If you want to run external kernel modules like nvidia-drivers or zfs,
stick to a longterm kernel.  The ABI changes all the time, and so
there will frequently be stable kernel version changes that break
nvidia-drivers.  Then there will be a lag before nvidia-drivers
supports the new stable kernel.  In the meantime you can't run the
latest version, and that can mean security issues.

The longterm kernels rarely break nvidia-drivers and get all the
security and other fixes.  They just don't get new features.

-- 
Rich

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