I'm running S.L. 5.6 on a few machines, and have grown somewhat
dependent on it.  However, there are features in the kernel 
that comes with 6.2 (like USB3) which I would like to have.

Is it possible to upgrade just the kernel and associated modules
and "miscellaneous"?

I assume this is tricky, and fraught with dangers, and the usual
cautions (make backups, work on a copy of the disk, tweak yum 
updates so they won't regress the 2.6.32 kernel, etc) apply.

For now, I just want to know whether this is worthy of further
consideration, or instead I should set aside a few weeks to
upgrade everything then rebuild a lot of poorly written custom
apps.

Keith

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