Re: why is linux-libre-headers behind linux-libre?

[Dave Love]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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.