However, for RHEL6, Red Hat stopped providing future kernels because of the competition from Oracle and Canonical. Red Hat invests a lot of money in backporting drivers and functionality to their Enterprise kernels.
But being able to track those versions would make it easier to isolate individual patches :-/ I regret this decision, even though I understand Red Hat to protect their business. In the past this helped me bisect problems before they would be released and ship in production.
Future RHEL kernels becoming extinct
For RHEL5, you can find newer kernels at: http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5/
However, for RHEL6, Red Hat stopped providing future kernels because of the competition from Oracle and Canonical. Red Hat invests a lot of money in backporting drivers and functionality to their Enterprise kernels.
The RHEL6 kernels were available previously at: http://people.redhat.com/arozansk/el6/
But being able to track those versions would make it easier to isolate individual patches :-/ I regret this decision, even though I understand Red Hat to protect their business. In the past this helped me bisect problems before they would be released and ship in production.