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From: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: why is linux-libre-headers behind linux-libre?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:16:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu9x2df8.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171031193852.GB987@macbook41> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:38:52 +0200")

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 02:00:35PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > Why is linux-libre-headers a long way behind linux-libre (currently at
>> > version 4.4.47, compared with 4.13.10 for linux-libre)?
>> 
>> I suspect this is due to massive rebuilding that would occur when
>> updating linux-libre-headers
>> 
>
> This is typically updated in the core-updates branch, but it hasn't been
> updated yet. Based on the LTS versions, we should upgrade it to the 4.9
> branch.

Thanks for the explanations.  I checked that 4.9 would support the
Omnipath library, at least.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-02 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31 12:35 why is linux-libre-headers behind linux-libre? Dave Love
2017-10-31 13:00 ` Vincent Legoll
2017-10-31 19:38   ` Efraim Flashner
2017-11-02 10:16     ` Dave Love [this message]
2017-11-05 15:51       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-06  8:44         ` Mark H Weaver
2017-11-06  8:51           ` Pjotr Prins
2017-11-06 15:18             ` Dave Love
2017-11-06 19:22               ` Mark H Weaver
2017-11-06 21:00                 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-11-07  9:56           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-06 15:16         ` Dave Love

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