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SubjectRe: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?
Hi!

> > > > For me
> > > > only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to
> > > > compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true.
> > >
> > > Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That feels very wrong and
> > > is not the recommended thing to use the LTS kernels for.
> >
> > Well, that's actually what distributions are doing, for example Debian
> > 10.8 is on 4.19...
>
> There's 5.10 in buster-backports. That's probably the easiest way to get support for new HW.
>

I can compile my own kernel, too. But if you go up the thread, it is
about iwlwifi becoming broken in 4.19, and Greg saying it is wrong
to put -stable on laptop. And -stable on laptop is norm, not the
exception.

Pavel
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