On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:32:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So it's the biggest sporting day of the year here in the US, when
> everybody is getting ready to watch the yearly top TV commercials,
> occasionally interrupted by some odd handegg carrying competition that
> I still haven't figured out the rules for after twenty-odd years here.
> It's kind of a more violent and hands-on team-oriented version of the
> traditional egg-and-spoon race, and involves a lot of standing around,
> apparently waiting for the next commercial to come on.
>
> Outside the US, everybody scratches their heads about the whole thing,
> and hopefully life goes on with the weekly celebration involving
> compiling and testing new kernels instead.
>
> Right?
>
> Anyway, this is hopefully the last rc for this release, unless some
> surprise comes along and makes a travesty of our carefully laid plans.
> It happens.
>
> Nothing hugely scary stands out, with the biggest single part of the
> patch being some new self-tests. In fact, about a quarter of the patch
> is documentation and selftests.
>
> The rest is just the usual random noise - architecture updates,
> drivers (gpu and usb stand out a bit), some filesystem fixes, and a
> few core VM and networking fixes.
>
> Go forth and test. Unless you're glued to the TV, of course.
>
Build results:
total: 153 pass: 153 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
total: 430 pass: 430 fail: 0
Guenter
