Recently I’ve been needing the latest rc kernel quite often, but for the past couple months (since I started checking) it has seemed that the kernels-org file on master is regularly over a week out of date (which leaves nixos-unstable even more out of date). Obviously I could (and I often do) just override the version myself, but I wanted to ask: would it be ok for me to simply PR updates to the kernel version? The reason I ask rather than just doing it is that I can’t find precedent and it’s obviously a super critical part of the codebase.
Updates to the kernel go to staging-nixos first.
There are PRs that set precedence for this:
There is a kernel team, so cc-ing them would be best in your PR, as is done in the above PR.
For what it is worth, if you want to be bleeding edge, keep doing as you have been doing. Upstream nixpkgs will always lag behind for good reasons (testing).
I’m not sure you could get PRs through much faster than they already are with the current CI structure, since kernel updates have to go through staging-nixos due to affecting every nixos test.
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They are usually a week old because nixos-unstable requires almost 2 extra days for tests outside of the ~3 day build time on nixpkgs-unstable.
Sure, but at time of writing both staging-nixos and master are on 7.0-rc6 while 7.0-rc7 came out 4 days ago.
I’m not sure how I missed that! Thanks for your help 
But the -rc kernels aren’t used in many tests, right? I don’t think the staging-nixos way is needed in that particular case.
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Good point. Not sure if there are other problems, though.
I don’t think anybody in the kernel team is running the update script whenever an rc kernel is released. You are very welcome to submit PRs to master updating linux_testing.
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