Linux Kernel 3.14.77 LTS Has Updated Radeon and InfiniBand Drivers, CIFS Fixes

As you might know already, the Linux 3.14 kernel series is a long-term supported one, and it will receive security patches, updated drivers, and other improvements until January 2017. The seventy-seventh maintenance update comes only four days from the release of Linux kernel 3.14.76 LTS and, according to the appended shortlog and the diff from the previous point release, it changes a total of 45 files, with 337 insertions and 158 deletions. If you’re wondering what’s new in Linux kernel 3.14.77 LTS, we can tell you that it includes various updated drivers, in particular for Radeon and Intel i915 GPUs, general-purpose input/output (GPIO), InfiniBand, MD, MTD, PCI, USB, and Virtio devices, small improvements to the CIFS and NFS filesystems, minor MIPS and ARM enhancements, as well as core networking updates, with IPv4, IPv6, and Netlabel changes.