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On 09/07/2016 04:33 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Well there are risks both way - updating to a newer kernel certainly has
> risks (otherwise our kernel team & QA wouldn't have to spend several months
> working on testing & tweaking the distro when creating new release based on
> the new kernel) and backporting has risks as well. You want to find a
> kernel version where the added risk from all the backports does not
> outweight the additional time for testing the kernel and generally
> stabilizing the product.
>  
> 								Honza

That's right. The feature backporting to LSK often has such judgment and
considerations. That's also the reason why LSK is more aggressive to use
(to push) newer LTS. We do prefer the upstream, but like many distros,
have to use relative newer LTS...