linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

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Message-ID: <20180416120650.6174a601@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:06:50 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.17-rc1

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:55:38 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> End result: we actually removed more lines than we added:
> 
>  13538 files changed, 627723 insertions(+), 818855 deletions(-)
> 
> which is probably a first. Ever. In the history of the universe. Or at
> least kernel releases.

For the curious...that's not quite the case.  We shrunk a bit for 2.6.36,
due to the removal of all those defconfig files.  3.17 was also slightly
smaller than 3.16 - removal of POWER3 and a whole bunch of staging stuff.
So...third time's the charm!

Of course, one could look at the numbers involved and conclude that a
release with more lines removed than added is a harbinger of a dot-zero
release in the near future :)

jon