Re: Latest kernel to use?

[Sjoerd <sjoerd@sjomar.eu>]

On Friday 25 September 2015 13:51:34 Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:36:18PM +0200, Sjoerd wrote:
> > Thanks all for the feedback. Still doubting though to go for 4.2.1 or not.
> > Main reason is that I am currently running 4.1.7 on my laptop which seems
> > to work fine and had some issues with the 4.2.0 kernel. No issues I thing
> > that were btrfs related, but more related to my nvidia card. Anyway
> > switching back to 4.1.7 resolved those, so I am a bit holding back to try
> > the 4.2.1 version ;)
> > Anyway I'll see and can always revert back if I don't like it ;)
> 
>    If 4.1.7 is working OK for you, stick with it. It's getting much
> less important now, as btrfs matures, to keep up with the _very_
> latest. Purely on gut feeling about issues we see on IRC and here,
> 3.19 or later would be reasonable at the moment.
> 

OK i'll stick with the longterm 4.1.x branch then..

>    Compared to, say, 3 or 4 years ago when running late -rc kernels
> was often preferable to running the latest stable, and things have
> improved quite a bit. :)

Good to know and thanks for the feedback :)

Cheers,
Sjoerd