<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Iznogoud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iznogoud@nobelware.com" target="_blank">iznogoud@nobelware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I did try to take later kernel modules and back-port them to an older kernel.<br>
Sometimes it works... The only benefit is that one does not need to make huge<br>
upgrades (kernel, modules, clib, other libs, etc) but now you are running on<br>
an ad hoc system and uncharted territory. Sounds like a thing a Slackware user<br>
would do... but not too often.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>in my experience using a newer kernel together with an older userspace almost always just works (indeed openvz et al rely on this), tho i confess my experience has rarely included module issues, if i had a reason to i'd try keeping the module heirarchy together with a new kernel and try them with the rest of everything being an older userspace.<br></div></div></div></div>