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=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS 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 95A2BC433E0 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DABC64E22 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229943AbhBRWuu (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:50:50 -0500 Received: from hosting.gsystem.sk ([212.5.213.30]:54544 "EHLO hosting.gsystem.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229535AbhBRWuq (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:50:46 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 386 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:50:45 EST Received: from [192.168.0.2] (188-167-68-178.dynamic.chello.sk [188.167.68.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hosting.gsystem.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E95547A0088; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:43:38 +0100 (CET) From: Ondrej Zary To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:43:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , Jari Ruusu , Willy Tarreau , Scott Branden , Linux ARM , LKML , BCM Kernel Feedback References: <20210218205534.GA10201@duo.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20210218205534.GA10201@duo.ucw.cz> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <202102182343.36276.linux@zary.sk> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 18 February 2021 21:55:34 Pavel Machek wrote: > 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 expect -stable is what most users are running on their notebooks. > > Best regards, > Pavel -- Ondrej Zary