Balasubramanian Ravuthan wrote: > > We are looking support from you on the Linux Kernel upgrade on Debian 10. > > We are currently using Debian10 Buster Linux Kernel 4.19 version and trying > to upgrade to Debian10 Buster Linux Kernel 5.10 version. Is there any impact > on this upgrading. > > In other words, what are the things will get affected if we do kernel upgrade.
Buster was not released with a 5.10 kernel. A 5.10 kernel came with Bullseye, Debian 11. Are you getting this from backports? In general, Linus is pretty flexible about what kernels are being used. The difference will be that the 5 series presumably has fixed some old bugs, introduced some new bugs, and some things will be faster or slower. Overall, more hardware is supported, but if everything was working well with 4.19, then there's no immediate reason to suspect it won't work with 5.10. For more details, you're going to have to ask a more specific question. -dsr-
