Re: Linux 5.13-rc2

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon May 17 2021 - 09:57:00 EST


On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 03:48:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So a week has passed, and rc2 is tagged and pushed out.
>
> Things look pretty normal: rc2 tends to be fairly quiet as people
> start finding issues, and while 5.13 looks to be a pretty big release
> over-all, the changes in rc2 are if anything slightly smaller than
> average. But it's well within the noise.
>
> The fixes here are all over the place - drivers, arch updates,
> documentation, tooling.. Nothing particularly stands out, although a
> fix for some VGA text-mode font size issues is funny (as in "strange",
> not "ha-ha funny") just because so few people presumably use the
> extended SVGA text modes any more. That's not recent breakage either.
>

Build results:
total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
total: 462 pass: 460 fail: 2
Failed tests:
arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:net,usb:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:initrd
arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:sd:net,usb:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:rootfs

I have seen a pull request that fixes the raspi2 problem. Hopefully that
fix should be in -rc3.

Guenter