On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:15:53 +0100, Piotr Figiel said:

According to kernel.org website 4.1 has projected EOL in May 2018. Is the information about kernel releases on kernel.org irrelevant/ shouldn't be trusted? Or my understanding of longterm kernel trees is incorrect?

Do you *really* want to be doing any new development on something that goes off support in 3 months? Why are you even looking at 4.1? That was all the way back in June 2015, and since then, there have been 220,344 commits totalling: [/usr/src/linux] git diff --shortstat v4.1 v4.16-rc3 55263 files changed, 8740289 insertions(+), 2695706 deletions(-) (Heck, even my Raspberry Pi and my Linksys router are running 4.14 based kernels :) And feel free to 'name and shame' if a vendor is doing something that traps you at that release - that's a vendor behavior that should be discouraged.