Re: Linux 5.17

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Mar 21 2022 - 10:58:30 EST


On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 01:34:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So we had an extra week of at the end of this release cycle, and I'm
> happy to report that it was very calm indeed. We could probably have
> skipped it with not a lot of downside, but we did get a few
> last-minute reverts and fixes in and avoid some brown-paper bugs that
> would otherwise have been stable fodder, so it's all good.
>
> And that calm last week can very much be seen from the appended
> shortlog - there really aren't a lot of commits in here, and it's all
> pretty small. Most of it is in drivers (net, usb, drm), with some core
> networking, and some tooling updates too.
>
> It really is small enough that you can just scroll through the details
> below, and the one-liner summaries will give a good flavor of what
> happened last week.
>
> Of course, this means that the merge window for 5.18 will be open
> starting tomorrow, and I already have about a dozen pull requests
> waiting in my inbox. I appreciate the early pull requests: it gives me
> that warm and fuzzy feeling of "this was all ready in plenty of time".
> Judging by the statistics in linux-next, it looks like 5.18 will be a
> bit bigger than 5.17 was, but hopefully without some of the drama.
>
> So go test this, and we'll get 5.18 started tomorrow.

Build results:
total: 155 pass: 155 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
total: 488 pass: 488 fail: 0

Guenter