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Yes (kernel engineer here), we can mix and match what we pick and when. Almost every major subsystem is updated only a few months after the corresponding patche
by bonzini 6y ago
Yes (kernel engineer here), we can mix and match what we pick and when. Almost every major subsystem is updated only a few months after the corresponding patches hit Linus's tree.
I would guess that most of RHEL 7 is on par with 4.14 or 4.19 (which is newer than the RHEL 8 kernel!) and RHEL8.3 will have subsystems updated up to 5.7-5.8.
Of course it's not much fun backporting 50 patches for Intel vulnerability mitigations to RHEL7.2 that some mission critical apps still use. But I guess it pays my bills so who am I to complain, I love everything else about my job. ;)