Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-10 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 16:55 +, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > ... > > > > Looks like there are some patches to try and are being tested for > kernel > 4.9 - see https://bugz

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-10 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 01/10/2017 08:53 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes >> with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not >> upholding a important fixes only p

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 01/10/2017 08:53 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes > with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not > upholding a important fixes only policy. That would depend on whether you understand "stable" to be "LTS" or

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-10 Thread Mike Cloaked via arch-general
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > FYI, 4.8 has been EOL'd, leaving 4.4-lts, 4.1-lts as options for > arch "default" kernel until 4.10 is released if we assume that > there's a critical fix in the stable patch queue. > > My crit

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-10 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
FYI, 4.8 has been EOL'd, leaving 4.4-lts, 4.1-lts as options for arch "default" kernel until 4.10 is released if we assume that there's a critical fix in the stable patch queue. My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not