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From: "Toralf Förster" <toralf@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Masking 4.12
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 08:50:06
Message-Id: 4ec95003-b184-b17e-c7da-87fc6d27d28a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Masking 4.12 by Alice Ferrazzi
1 On 12/30/2017 07:52 AM, Alice Ferrazzi wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > We recently dropped the stable keywords for 4.14,
5 > but 4.12 (the next stable in gentoo-sources) is no more
6 > maintained from upstream.
7 >
8 > The last update that 4.12 got from upstream was 2017-09-20,
9 > and upstream is no more backporting security fixes since then.
10 > Because of this, we will proceed to mask 4.12.
11 >
12 > Keep in mind: If 4.14 works for you, you can keyword it and
13 > continue to use it, if you need a more stable kernel, please
14 > move to 4.9.
15 >
16 At the LKML you can read that Linus Torvalds blames Gentoo GCC patch
17 set  for few issues related to 4.14.9
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21 Toralf
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Masking 4.12 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>