[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: [systemd‑devel] version bump of minimal kernel version supported by systemd?

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> schrieb am 24.03.2022 um 08:12 in
Nachricht <YjwZ56FP4Qgx3cMC at kroah.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:34:00PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
>> FWIW, I think Greg was a bit too outspoken calling long maintenance
>> attempts 'crazy'; that may have intimidated some. I'm thinking of
>> moving distro to one that provides longer term maintenance than my
>> present one. Although CIP is a completely different ball game; I hope
>> they succeed.
> 
> It is not "crazy" it is "well documented".  As someone who has been
> doing this work for 20+ years now and sees all of the stable kernel
> patches flow by, it's obvious that a distro that does not keep up with
> them is insecure by design.

If "newer is better" I'd agree. Sometimes "newer is actually worse".
Some new features intended to improve things sometimes actually make things worse.

Regards,
Ulrich