Two new "experimental" stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 4.9.256and 4.4.256 in order to try to figure outif there are any user-space problems caused by the overflow of the minor version number for thosestable-kernel series. "With this release, KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 256) is the same as KERNEL_VERSION(4, 10, 0).Nothing in the kernel build itself breaks with this change, but given that thisis a userspace visible change, and some crazy tools (like glibc and gcc) havelogic that checks the kernel version for different reasons, I wanted to do thisrelease as an 'empty' release to ensure that everything still worksproperly." Those who could be affected would be well-advised totest this change immediately as he plans another 4.9 release in aweek's time.