linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.11-rc4

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:35:20 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.11-rc4

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 04:56:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Things continue to look fairly normal for this release: 5.11-rc4 is
> solidly average in size, and nothing particularly scary stands out.
> 
> In the diff itself, the new ampere modesetting support shows up fairly
> clearly - it's one of those hardware enablement things that should be
> entirely invisible to people who don't have that hardware, but it does
> end up being about a fifth of the whole rc4 patch.
> 
> If you ignore that oddity, the rest looks pretty normal, with random
> patches all over, and a lot of it being quite small. All the usual
> suspects: drivers (gpu, sound, rdma, md, networking..) arch updates
> (arm64, risc-v, x86), fiesystems (ext4, nfs, btrfs), core networking,
> documentation and tooling. And just random fixes.
> 

Here are the test results:

Build results:
	total: 153 pass: 151 fail: 2
Failed builds:
	arm64:allmodconfig
	ia64:defconfig
Qemu test results:
	total: 430 pass: 428 fail: 2
Failed tests:
	arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:initrd
	arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:sd:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:rootfs

Same old ...

Guenter