Re: Linux 6.1-rc5

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Nov 14 2022 - 18:09:56 EST


On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 01:29:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Another week, another rc.
>
> Did things calm down and shrink this week? No. We've got about as many
> commits in rc5 as we had in rc4. It's not outrageously big, but it's
> certainly on the bigger side for this timeframe.
>
> Am I getting worried? Not yet. There's nothing particularly worrisome
> in here, and the rc5 changes are just a little bit of everything, so
> I'm hoping it's just that it's one of those timing things and all the
> pull requests came in this week, and it's going to calm down now.
>
> But we'll see. If things don't start calming down, this may be one of
> those releases that need an extra week. It wasn't a particularly big
> merge window, but I don't particularly like how the rc's keep being on
> the bigger side.
>
> Anyway, lots of small fixes, fairly spread out (the diffstat looks
> fairly flat apart from some maple tree tests moving to the testing
> subdirectory). Nothing really stands out, the stats all look normal
> apart from the "just slightly more than usual". Drivers, networking,
> architecture fixes, with some smattering of noise elsewhere.
>

Nothing to report from my side.

Build results:
total: 152 pass: 152 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
total: 500 pass: 500 fail: 0

Guenter