Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:00:27AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi!

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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.

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.

Well, that's actually what distributions are doing, for example Debian
10.8 is on 4.19...

There's 5.10 in buster-backports. That's probably the easiest way to get support for new HW.
 

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.

If distros want to "camp out" on an old kernel version, that's fine, as
I describe in:
	http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/
many years ago.

But for someone using a device where they want to use "new" hardware,
that was made _after_ the kernel version was released, that's just
someone who needs to pick a better distro :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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