linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.11-rc7

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Message-ID: <20210208205911.GA179375@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 12:59:11 -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-rc7

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:32:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So it's the biggest sporting day of the year here in the US, when
> everybody is getting ready to watch the yearly top TV commercials,
> occasionally interrupted by some odd handegg carrying competition that
> I still haven't figured out the rules for after twenty-odd years here.
> It's kind of a more violent and hands-on team-oriented version of the
> traditional egg-and-spoon race, and involves a lot of standing around,
> apparently waiting for the next commercial to come on.
> 
> Outside the US, everybody scratches their heads about the whole thing,
> and hopefully life goes on with the weekly celebration involving
> compiling and testing new kernels instead.
> 
> Right?
> 
> Anyway, this is hopefully the last rc for this release, unless some
> surprise comes along and makes a travesty of our carefully laid plans.
> It happens.
> 
> Nothing hugely scary stands out, with the biggest single part of the
> patch being some new self-tests. In fact, about a quarter of the patch
> is documentation and selftests.
> 
> The rest is just the usual random noise - architecture updates,
> drivers (gpu and usb stand out a bit), some filesystem fixes, and a
> few core VM and networking fixes.
> 
> Go forth and test. Unless you're glued to the TV, of course.
> 

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

Guenter