On 2020-03-30 15:05 -0500, 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
For 5.4 LTS, we got 21 releases in this year, and 12 releases since Feb. 1st. No significant improvement. LTS meaning continuing maintenance so we'll still get one release for each severe bug (even if it's a bug in a strange server motherboard). I think we can just hold on kernel 5.x.0 for the development book unless there is a bug making it unusable. (There is already a note telling the audience to use latest 5.x.y.) And, we should update to latest 5.x.y before 9.2. -- Xi Ruoyao <xry...@mengyan1223.wang> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
