Quote of the week

[Posted February 8, 2017 by corbet]

Oh, if you are _stuck_ on 3.18 (/me eyes his new phone), well, I might have a plan for you, that first involves you yelling very loudly at your hardware vendor and refusing to buy from them again unless they cut this crap out. After you properly vent to them, drop me an email and let's see what we can come up with, you aren't in this sinking ship alone, and it's obvious your vendor isn't going to help out...

— Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Posted Feb 9, 2017 8:18 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] (4 responses)

3.18 is pure luxury. Try 3.10. Cutting edge, these Android kernels...

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Posted Feb 9, 2017 18:46 UTC (Thu) by admalledd (subscriber, #95347) [Link]

I am stuck on 3.4 here... Next time since I will have a choice I will be going with someone who does and can keep closer to mainline!

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Posted Feb 10, 2017 16:38 UTC (Fri) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link]

My phone upgraded to Android 7.0 in December 2016. It's running 3.18.31... just in time for it to be EOL'd. :)

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Posted Feb 10, 2017 18:52 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

My (Google-branded) phone here runs 3.0.101. Last patched less than 2 months ago too, but the hardware vendor isn't to thank for that.

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Posted Feb 10, 2017 21:59 UTC (Fri) by bracher (subscriber, #4039) [Link]

My Nexus 5x reports 3.10.73... Last patched within the last few days (patch level February 5, 2017).

Quote of the week

Posted Feb 11, 2017 0:08 UTC (Sat) by opalmirror (subscriber, #23465) [Link]

My phone is a flagship product from a leading vendor but is also still running 3.18. It's not unlike when RedHat had this hugely patched kernel... off on its own branch, as the community separately marched on....