Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:00:27 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? |
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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. > > > > > > 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.
Pavel -- http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |