[LEDE-DEV] Kernel version in next major release

[David Lang]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:

> * Port the generic patches

what are the 'generic patches' and is there an effort to get them upstream so 
that they don't need to be ported in each release?

> * Make all the out of tree modules work with it

is there any work being done to make these in-tree?

> * Port all targets to this kernel version
>  * Some targets are not so well maintained any more and there an
> additional delay could be introduced.

do we have a list of these devices? do any of these warrent "we need a 
maintainer or they won't be supported" calls?