Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:06:37 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: Linux 5.12-rc8 |
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 03:02:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, so it's been _fairly_ calm this past week, but it hasn't been the > kind of dead calm I would have taken to mean "no rc8 necessary". > > So here we are, with an extra rc to make sure things are all settled > down. It's not _that_ rare: this is the fifth time in the 5.x series > we've ended up with an rc8, but I have to admit that I prefer it when > a release doesn't end up needing that extra week. > > Because let's keep it to just one extra week, ok? We have occasionally > done rc9's too, but I really don't expect that this time around. > > About half of this is once more networking, with driver and bpf > verifier fixes standing out. Other than that it's mostly other driver > updates (gpu, dmaengine, HID, input, nvdimm) and arch updates (mainly > arm and arm64). > > And a number of one-liner build fixes for unusual configurations. > > So it's not tiny, but it's all small enough that you can easily scan > through the shortlog below and get a fair sense of what's going on. > > Let's plan on a final 5.12 release next weekend - but please do give > it one last test to check that it is all solid. Ok? >
Build results: total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0 Qemu test results: total: 461 pass: 461 fail: 0
Guenter
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