linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.11-rc5

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:48:19 -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-rc5

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 05:06:40PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So this rc looked fairly calm and small, all the way up until today.
> 
> In fact, over 40% of the non-merge commits came in today, as people
> unloaded their work for the week on me. The end result is a slightly
> larger than usual rc5 (but both 5.10 and 5.8 were bigger, so not some
> kind of odd outlier).
> 
> Nothing particularly stands out. We had a couple of splice()
> regressions that came in during the previous release as part of the
> "get rid of set_fs()" development, but they were for odd cases that
> most people would never notice. I think it's just that 5.10 is now
> getting more widely deployed so people see the fallout from that
> rather fundamental change in the last release.  And the only reason I
> even reacted to those is just because I ended up being involved with
> some of the tty patches during the early calm period of the past week.
> There's a few more still pending.
> 
> But the bulk of it all is all the usual miscellaneous fixes all over
> the place, and a lot of it is truly trivial one- or few-liners. Just
> under half the patch is for drivers, with the rest being the usual mix
> of tooling, arch updates, filesystem and core (mm, scheduling,
> networking).
> 
> Nothing here makes me go "Uhhuh" in other words.
> 

Looking pretty good now.

Build results:
	total: 153 pass: 153 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 430 pass: 430 fail: 0

Guenter