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On Tue, 8 May 2018, Sasha Levin wrote:

> There's no one, for example, who picked up vanilla v4.16 and plans to
> keep using it for a year.

Actually, at a prior job I would do almost exactly that.

I never intended to go a year without updating, but it would happen if nothing 
came up that was related to the hardware/features I was running.

so 'no one uses the Linus kernel is false.