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

[Mike Cloaked]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general <
arch-general at 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 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.
>

Looks like there are some patches to try and are being tested for kernel
4.9 - see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191121

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mike c