Re: The Steps to upgrade kernel

["cui,chun" <cuichun gmx de>]

>
> Since you've acknowledged that you are both new and know almost nothing,
> I have to ask: why you do you want to upgrade the kernel in the first
> place? The vast majority of people I've asked the question to think that
> just because it's newer, it must be better, when in fact what Red Hat
> provides is not only adequate, but in many cases better than the
> "official" kernel.  Red Hat adds many fixes and backported features to
> its kernel (I believe it's about 350 patches or so).  All of those will
> be lost when you migrate (not upgrade or downgrade, but migrate) to a
> stock kernel.
>
> If the kernel you have works, do not install the stock kernel.  You may
> break something without even a small chance of improving anything at
> all.
but when i rebuild the SRPM kernel package/source-kernel from RH,will i lose 
the features or not...?