Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:37:45 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? |
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:31:49AM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On Friday, February 19, 2021 10:22 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > 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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