On 3/30/20 3:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
We have almost always updated the linux kernel to the "mainline"
release. We do skip intermediate releases though because of the
frequency of releases.
For instance, today is the 90th day of the year, but there have been
about 34 releases. The first release of the year was 5.4.8. There is
a little overlap there because 5.4 is a longterm release. In any case
there have been 13 releases for 5.5 since February 1st (14 if you
count 5.6).
I would like to propose keeping the kernel at the most recent long
term support (LTS) version for the book. Users can, of course, use
whatever version they want.
What do you think?
-- Bruee
I think this is a good idea, especially after the IWLWIFI problems with
Linux-5.6
(https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.6-Broken-Intel-IWLWIFI)
However, the current version of the LTS kernel is 5.4.28. Between
5.4.14-5.4.16, there was a problem with kernel's cryptography
implementation that would cause cryptsetup, bluez, and other
applications that rely off the kerne's crypto implementation to crash.
I don't recall if we've had to adapt anything to changes in 5.5 or not,
I think that was all 5.2/5.3-related.
I agree that downgrading to 5.4 might be the best approach for now though.
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