linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.19-rc7

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Date:   Sun, 7 Oct 2018 15:36:22 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.19-rc7

On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 05:45:29PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yet again, it's time for a kernel -rc release.  This one is bigger than
> -rc6 was, for a variety of unrelated reasons it seems.  Lots of
> different trees being merged this week, much more so than the previous
> one.  Highlights include two sets of networking fixes, lots of different
> driver subsystem fixes, arm and arm64 and x86 and riscv and powerpc64
> fixes, as well as scheduler, iommu, and vfs fixes.  Not a huge quantity
> overall, just overall a lot of different things.
> 
> Given the current rate of change, and looking at the travel/conference
> schedule happening this month, it seems like we will be having a -rc8
> just to be sure 4.19 is solid as well as not having to be in the middle
> of a merge window during a conference week.  Please go test and make
> sure any remaining problems are sent in in time.
> 

Build results:
	total: 135 pass: 135 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 318 pass: 318 fail: 0

Details are available at https://kerneltests.org/builders/.

Notes:
- sparc32:allmodconfig is no longer built.
  Starting with v4.19, nds32:allmodconfig will be built instead.
- CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST is now disabled.

Guenter