Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:31:49AM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote:

On Friday, February 19, 2021 10:22 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

That's not the goal of stable kernel releases/trees. If the driver
version that is in 4.19.y does not work for you on release 4.19.0, odds
of that "changing" in later stable releases is slim to none.

But in-tree iwlwifi worked fine on 4.9.y and 4.14.y , and then got broken
in later 4.14.y versions.

Did you report that breakage to us and the developers of the driver?
Sounds like a regression that people would love to hear about and get
fixed.

I tried later versions of 4.19.y in an attempt to
fix the breakage. Basically you are are saying that I should have NOT
attempted to upgrage 4.9.y -> 4.14.y -> 4.19.y

Without anyone reporting a problem, how can anyone know to fix it?

thanks,

greg k-h

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