On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 03:00:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So rc3 is pretty big this time around, but that's entirely artificial,
> and due to how I released rc2 early. So I'm not going to read anything
> more into this, 5.12 still seems to actually be on the smaller side
> overall. Also, because of the rc1 debacle, there has been a bit more
> rebasing than usual, so the history of some of the commits sometimes
> looks more recent than it necessarily is.
>
> Other than that, things look fairly normal - there's a big peak in the
> diffstat around the io_uring fallout from the new thread creation
> model, and sparc makes an unusual showing on the architecture updates
> side, but other than that it's all the usual things: drivers (gpu,
> net, usb, staging, sound... all over), architectures (x86, arm64,
> s390, powerpc in addition to the already-mentioned sparc), filesystems
> (cifs, nfs) and core kernel (networking, VM, timers, scheduler..).
>
> And the (by now) quite usual documentation and tooling updates (mainly
> perf tooling and selftests).
>
> And random other patches.
>
> Full shortlog appended, although it is a bit larger than usual, so
> maybe not as easy to eyeball as I'd hope.
>
> With this, we're obviously back to the usual "Sunday afternoon" rc
> schedule, and I think we should be all back to normal in general for
> this release.
>
> Go beat on it,
>
Build results:
total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
total: 436 pass: 436 fail: 0
Guenter
