LWN: Comments on "Eight new stable kernels"

No more Wi-Fi

ballombe — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:32:36 +0000

But you cannot do that! Greg said "All users of the 6.6 kernel series must upgrade."
No exception! Even if the new kernel does not boot, you cannot postpone the upgrade!
That is what free software means after all!

No more Wi-Fi

alspnost — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:07:22 +0000

The Mediatek changes have completely broken the Wi-Fi on my cheapo MT7921K chipset (integrated into the mainboard). Ho hum, back to v6.6.1 for me.

Eight new stable kernels

xose — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:52:39 +0000

And still the queues have not been completely emptied: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/

Eight new stable kernels

ReillyBrogan — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:25:17 +0000

That, and also these are the "massive" bugfix patches that always come after the merge window closes. They usually take longer for Gregkh to work through than usual kernels. 6.5.2-rc1 for example had 603 individual patches in it, most bugfix releases for the most recent stable kernel usually are more like 70-200 individual patches. Actually, this might be the soonest Gregkh has gotten through the merge window bugfixes in the last year or so. Usually they land more on a .4 or .5 release.

Eight new stable kernels

simon.d — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:25:04 +0000

I always told him not to dump big loads in his toilet.

Eight new stable kernels

willy — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:41:53 +0000

Possibly because Greg was busy with Plumbers?

Eight new stable kernels

birdie — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:38:30 +0000

All of them have massively been delayed for some reasons.