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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 13:22:48 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Linux 4.2-rc1
It's Sunday, two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. I
just pushed out the tag to the git trees, and tar-balls and patches
should be mirroring out too.
I thought this release would be one of the biggest ones ever, but it
turns out that it will depend on how you count. Just counting pure
commits, it is indeed one of the bigger rc1's in recent history, but
3.10-rc1 was almost as big, and then the final 3.10 grew from that
more than most. I doubt we'll match the 3.10 release, since we have
been getting progressively better at *not* merging tons of stuff after
-rc1.
And it turns out v3.15-rc1 had more commits than 4.2-rc1 does (by a
hair), so even there this isn't the biggest rc1 ever, if you count the
number of commits.
But it's certainly up there with the best of them. It's much too big
to post the shortlog, so as usual for rc1, appended is just my
"mergelog", with the people who are credited being the people I merge
from, which is usually not necessarily at all the same thing as the
people who actually authored the code. You'll need to go look at the
details in the git tree for that.
However, if you count the size in pure number of lines changed, this
really seems to be the biggest rc we've ever had, with over a million
lines added (and about a quarter million removed). That beats the
previous champion (3.11-rc1) that was huge mainly due to Lustre being
added to the staging tree.
The reason for that huge number of lines is largely a single source:
the bulk of this by far is from the new amd gpu register description
headers. In fact, just those register descriptor headers alone are
about 41% of the entire patch. The rest of the new amdgpu driver
itself is another 8% of the total, so we're in the somewhat odd
situation where a single driver is about half of the whole rc1 in
number of lines.
Aside from that unusual anomaly, the rest looks fairly normal - mainly
drivers and architecture updates. The Renesas H8/300 architecture came
back in a newly cleaned-up form, so we have some new(ish) architecture
support, but that's tiny and the bulk is ARM (with x86 a distant
second). Interestingly, there was quite a bit of low-level x86
changes: both source code re-organization for x86 entry code and lots
of FPU handling cleanups. That's fairly unusual, with low-level x86
code being fairly stable and seldom seeing those kinds of big changes.
Outside of the "drivers and architectures", there's a fair amount of
filesystem stuff, including some fundamental changes and cleanups to
symlink handling by Al. And all the usual updates to various
filesystems, networking, crypto, tools, testing, you name it.
Linus
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Al Viro (2):
vfs updates
more vfs updates
Alex Deucher (1):
radeon and amdgpu fixes
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (1):
RTC updates
Andrew Morton (3):
first patchbomb
second patchbomb
third patchbomb
Bjorn Helgaas (1):
PCI updates
Bob Peterson (1):
GFS2 updates
Borislav Petkov (2):
EDAC updates
EDAC fix
Brian Norris (1):
MTD updates
Bruce Fields (1):
nfsd updates
Bryan Wu (1):
LED subsystem updates
Catalin Marinas (2):
arm64 updates
arm64 fixes (and cleanups)
Chris Mason (1):
btrfs updates
Chris Metcalf (1):
arch/tile updates
Dan Williams (1):
libnvdimm subsystem
Daniel Vetter (1):
drm EDID fix
Darren Hart (2):
x86 platform driver updates
late x86 platform driver updates
Dave Airlie (1):
drm updates
David Miller (3):
networking updates
sparc fixes
networking fixes
David Vrabel (1):
xen updates
Dmitry Torokhov (2):
input subsystem updates
second round of input updates
Dominik Brodowski (1):
PCMCIA update
Doug Ledford (1):
rdma updates
Eric Biederman (1):
user namespace updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k update
Grant Likely (1):
devicetree updates
Greg KH (5):
char/misc driver updates
driver core updates
staging driver updates
tty/serial driver updates
USB updates
Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu updates
Guenter Roeck (2):
hwmon updates
hwmon fixes
Herbert Xu (3):
crypto update
crypto fixes
crypto fixes
Ingo Molnar (17):
RCU updates
locking updates
perf updates
perf fixes
scheduler updates
x86 cleanups
x86 CPU features
x86 debugging documentation updates
x86 EFI updates
x86 FPU updates
x86 kdump updates
x86 warning fixlet
x86 core updates
max log buf size increase
perf updates
scheduler fixes
x86 fixes
Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates
James Bottomley (1):
SCSI updates
James Morris (1):
security subsystem updates
Jan Kara (1):
UDF fixes and cleanups
Jani Nikula (1):
intel drm fixes
Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates
Jean Delvare (2):
DMI updates
more hwmon updates
Jens Axboe (6):
core block IO update
block driver updates
asm/scatterlist.h removal
cgroup writeback support
more block layer patches
block fixes
Jiri Kosina (3):
HID updates
livepatching fixes
trivial tree updates
Joerg Roedel (1):
IOMMU updates
Jon Mason (1):
NTB updates
Jonathan Corbet (1):
documentation updates
Kevin Hilman (6):
ARM SoC cleanups
ARM SoC platform support updates
ARM SoC DT updates
ARM SoC driver updates
ARM SoC defconfig updates
ARM SoC late fixes and dependencies
Lee Jones (2):
MFD updates
backlight updates
Ley Foon Tan (1):
nios2 update
Linus Walleij (2):
gpio updates
pin control updates
Mark Brown (3):
regmap updates
spi updates
regulator updates
Martin Schwidefsky (2):
s390 updates
more s390 updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
media updates
edac updates
Michael Ellerman (1):
powerpc updates
Michael Tsirkin (1):
virtio/vhost cross endian support
Michael Turquette (1):
clock framework updates
Michal Marek (2):
kconfig updates
kbuild updates
Michal Simek (1):
Microblaze updates
Mike Snitzer (2):
device mapper updates
device mapper fixes
Miklos Szeredi (2):
fuse updates
overlayfs updates
Neil Brown (1):
md updates
Nicholas Bellinger (1):
SCSI target updates
Ohad Ben-Cohen (2):
hwspinlock updates
remoteproc updates
Paolo Bonzini (2):
first batch of KVM updates
kvm fixes
Paul Gortmaker (6):
__cpuinit removal
implicit module.h fixes
module_init replacement part one
module_init replacement part two
module_platform_driver replacement
init.h/module.h fragility fixes
Paul Moore (1):
audit updates
Rafael Wysocki (3):
power management and ACPI updates
power management and ACPI fixes
ACPICA updates
Ralf Baechle (1):
MIPS updates
Richard Weinberger (2):
UBI/UBIFS updates
UML updates
Russell King (2):
clkdev updates
ARM updates
Rusty Russell (1):
module updates
Sage Weil (1):
Ceph updates
Sebastian Reichel (2):
HSI updates
power supply and reset updates
Shuah Khan (1):
kselftest update
Steve French (1):
CIFS/SMB3 updates
Steven Rostedt (2):
tracing fixes
tracing updates
Sumit Semwal (1):
dma-buf updates
Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
sound fixes
Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (3):
libata updates
cgroup updates
workqueue updates
Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates
Thomas Gleixner (8):
timer updates
NOHZ updates
irq updates
locking updates
scheduler updates
irq fixes
timer fixes
irq update
Tomi Valkeinen (2):
fbdev updates
fbdev fix
Tony Luck (4):
ia64 paravirt removal
pstore updates
ia64 updates
ia64 boot noise reduction fix
Trond Myklebust (1):
NFS client updates
Ulf Hansson (1):
MMC updates
Vineet Gupta (1):
ARC architecture updates
Vinod Koul (1):
dmaengine updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (1):
i2c updates
Yoshinori Sato (1):
Renesas H8/300 architecture re-introduction
Zhang Rui (1):
thermal management updates
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