From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2793DC433DB for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F0364EBD for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229678AbhBSIBP (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:01:15 -0500 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:51194 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229481AbhBSIBM (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:01:12 -0500 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id F1B751C0B8A; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:00:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:00:27 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Ondrej Zary Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jari Ruusu , Willy Tarreau , Scott Branden , Linux ARM , LKML , BCM Kernel Feedback Subject: Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? Message-ID: <20210219080027.GA12434@amd> References: <20210218205534.GA10201@duo.ucw.cz> <202102182343.36276.linux@zary.sk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202102182343.36276.linux@zary.sk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > > > > For me > > > > only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to > > > > compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true. > > >=20 > > > Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That feels very wrong = and > > > is not the recommended thing to use the LTS kernels for. > >=20 > > Well, that's actually what distributions are doing, for example Debian > > 10.8 is on 4.19... >=20 > There's 5.10 in buster-backports. That's probably the easiest way to get = support for new HW. > =20 I can compile my own kernel, too. But if you go up the thread, it is about iwlwifi becoming broken in 4.19, and Greg saying it is wrong to put -stable on laptop. And -stable on laptop is norm, not the exception. Pavel --=20 http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAmAvcBsACgkQMOfwapXb+vKULQCgryFXGNNKGnpKT+FWWox4Hbfm 9zMAoMHBptdPbLf7wAbiADdEp2IiWZB9 =kl2U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62--