linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.12-rc4

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Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:23:36 -0700
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 5.12-rc4

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 03:34:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Very much an average rc4, possibly just a tad on the smaller side of average.
> 
> Nothing here particularly stands out. The diffstat looks a bit more
> spread out than it perhaps normally would do, because of the removal
> of the (never used) MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE() thing that causes some
> trivial line removal in various drivers, but not only did it never do
> anything, it wasn't actually even all that common (ie it certainly
> wasn't a "most drivers" kind of situation).
> 
> Anyway, drivers (sound, gpu, nvme, USB), some filesystem updates,
> io-uring (signal fixes and cleanups), arch fixes (mostly RISC-V and
> x86 kvm), and just random small things all over.
> 
> So I'll just tempt the fates and say that everything looks pretty
> normal and this release seems to look good despite the rc1 hiccup,
> 

Build results:
	total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 437 pass: 437 fail: 0

Guenter