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Re:Linux Kernel LTS release is now for 6 years instead of 2 by joeyo on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:59PM (#15428954) 

  > Today, it's on Google to maintain dead kernels that it is 
  > still supporting. The 2016 Google Pixel shipped with 
  > Linux kernel 3.18, which was first released in 2014 and 
  > hit end-of-life in January 2017.
This is good. If it is going to take so long to go from kernel to shipped phone, that kernel should be supported for a reasonable amount of time.
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