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curaga:
You can use vanilla kernels with TC fine. Some features likely won't work, for example in 4.x we used compcache which is now zram.

CentralWare:
@Béla: With a community-supported environment, that's not overly surprising.  (One dev makes a tweak to item "A" which breaks "B" and "C" in the process.)
* I started compiling 3.19 about 10 minutes ago in a VM...  I have a little time to burn :)

On the other hand...  that's the only way you find out what works and what doesn't (and in my opinion, ten revisions can be merged into one working version when necessary with the right version control system and a few scripts to strip out the working code for each area of interest.)

One of the biggest challenges we'll ever face (on a kernel level) is new hardware implementations.  If I saw correctly, ACPI support is still at 4.x...  and on a hardware level, I believe the specs for 5.x are already being implemented.  When someone takes on the task of putting spec into code...  I don't imagine it'll work "out of the box."  On the flip-side...  OLDER hardware is just as challenging as fewer people have access to it, thus testing is usually minimal.

Add this, to what I just read about the NSA and it makes me wonder quite a few things about "anything" being safe on the market.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last

Regardless, thanks for your input and take care!

CentralWare:
@Curaga: Yes...  I noticed when I ran the 4.x patches.  If Linus' rule about "never break anything backware compatible" is true, I imagine it should still be in there somewhere; it's just a matter of finding it. :)

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