I think its more complex than just falling behind - anything later gets the spectre fixes etc. and it appears not to be quite stable yet in some cases. I am on 4.9.95 for everything except a surface pro4 with 4.16.17 (as stable as anything can be on those things) which needs latest.
BillK On 06/27/18 10:41, Philip Webb wrote: > 180626 Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >>> Does anyone know why the latest stable version of Gentoo-sources is 4.9.xx ? >>> I installed 4.9.16 , which I continue to use, on 2017-04-06 . >>> The tree contains versions of 4.14 4.16 4.17 , but all are still testing. >> I tend to just use my own upstream kernels. I'm following the 4.14 longterm >> and generally update within a few days of any release. >> That said, I have been burned by the odd regression. > Thanks for the other info (snipped). All Vanilla-sources are testing, > which seems to correspond to your "upstream" kernels. > > What does this say re recent kernel development or Gentoo's kernel team ? > -- very quick thanks as always to Gentoo's volunteer developers, > but something seems to be going astray here (smile). >
