[LEDE-DEV] Switches between LTS kernels and removal of previous LTSes

[SandeepSheriker.Mallikarjun at microchip.com]

Hi Stijn,
  The reason for moving to 4.14 kernel version is to include Microchip (i.e. Atmel AT91) new SOC's which are already mainlined in LTS kernel version 4.14. I have also verified with all SAMA5 Xplained board & sam9x35 Evk board working with latest kernel version 4.14.

Regards,
Sandeep Sheriker M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stijn Segers [mailto:foss at volatilesystems.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:09 AM
> To: Sandeep Sheriker Mallikarjun - C17018
> <SandeepSheriker.Mallikarjun at microchip.com>; chunkeey at gmail.com
> Cc: lede-dev at lists.infradead.org; stijn at linux-ipv6.be; jo at mein.io
> Subject: Switches between LTS kernels and removal of previous LTSes
> 
> Sorry, now the non-HTML version...
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I remember there was quite a bit of gnashing of teeth, when targets in
> master dropped 4.4 support so quickly after 17.01 had been released (which
> made it very cumbersome to backport 4.4 kernel bumps from master to the
> stable branch). Wouldn't it be wiser to keep 4.9 kernels around for targets
> that are being bumped to 4.14?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Stijn