[arch-general] Linux LTS 4.4 continued or 4.9 coming soon?

[Paul Lee]

The problem I'm having with 4.9 so far is that I'm running an Arch in a
VirtualBox guest on Windows and after upgrading to 4.9, the VirtualBox
guest additions couldn't compile (for both linux and linux-lts).

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Barry Fishman <barry at ecubist.org> wrote:

>
> On 2017-03-01 19:48:17 +08, Robert Wong via arch-general wrote:
> > Is 4.9-lts still buggy!? I've banned the kernel update for a while and
> > I'm considering to update it...
>
> I've had problems with the usb-dvb subsystem (TV Cards) not working
> after the 4.9 update due to security changes.  I'm not using the LTS
> kernel but instead stopped my regular kernel updates at 4.8.13-1 until
> it is fixed. (So far Debian Sid's 4.9.13 is still broken.)
>
> --
> Barry Fishman
>