bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s

From	Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s
Date	2016-11-28 14:30 +0100
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On 26/11/16 14:27, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Celejar wrote:
>> > applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running
>> > kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 from backports.
> Don't.  That kernel is very broken.  Switch to the latest 4.8 kernel
> available from either unstable or kernel.org, or compile the latest
> 4.4-longterm kernel from kernel.org.

Woah. I was just about to install that. Am I ok, and better off,
sticking with the 4.6 bpo kernel?

Will 4.8 hit bpo soon?

And is there a list I should be on to see this kind of thing?

(I just found the debian-backports list, but a quick scan only shows a
couple of quite specific bugs in 4.7)

Cheers,
Richard

Thread

Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 21:00 +0100
  Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-11-26 02:30 +0100
    bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a  ThinkPad W550s Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-11-28 14:30 +0100
      Re: bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a  ThinkPad W550s Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-11-28 15:40 +0100
      Re: bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2016-11-28 16:10 +0100
    Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 20:20 +0100
    Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-01-12 20:00 +0100

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