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SubjectRe: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:19:54PM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> In-tree iwlwifi worked half-ok on early 4.9.y stable. If
> connection somehow de-autheticated (out of radio range or
> whatever) it crashed the kernel spectacularly. Eventually that was
> fixed and in-tree iwlwifi worked fine on 4.9.y and 4.14.y stable
> kernels. On second half of year 2020 (don't remember exactly when)
> iwlwifi started causing erratic behavior when some random process
> terminated, as if some exit processing left some resources
> un-freed or something weird like that.

So you bisected the stable kernel, and reported the problem so the
problem commit could be dealt with?

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