You can do it, it's probably more worth your time to rewrite the apps
though, as you'd just be delaying the time until you needed to upgrade
eventually.

- Rich

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Kevin K <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Depending on what special features you might use on your system (virtualization, third party drivers), it might be possible to build a kernel from kernel.org.  I've tried this in the past but since the latest kernel still didn't properly support the broken hardware I didn't pursue it further.
>
> On Apr 15, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
>> 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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