News: 0000830733

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A pair of weekend stable kernels

([Kernel] Sep 5, 2020 22:53 UTC (Sat) (corbet))


The [1]5.8.7 and [2]5.4.63 stable kernels are out with a relatively small number of important fixes.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/830734/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/830735/

Drivers are a more complex issue. I'm not opposed to binary only drivers,
providing its easy to tell they are there and dump all bug reports about them.
Freedom generally includes the right to give up freedom. I'll tell people its
a bad idea but once they get caught, well it was their right to do so...

- Alan Cox on linux-kernel