linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.13-rc4

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Date:   Wed, 2 Jun 2021 04:44:57 -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 5.13-rc4

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 12:19:14PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So after two small rc releases, the other show finally dropped, and
> rc4 is fairly sizable.
> 
> It's not the biggest rc4 we've ever had, but it's certainly up there,
> believably competing for the title.
> 
> That said, exactly because of the calm rc2 and rc3, the size of rc4
> doesn't worry me, and I think the 5.13 release looks fairly normal.
> This bump is just because we had some stable work finally hit my tree.
> Notably the networking tree, but there's a lot of driver tree fixes
> too.
> 
> The fixes are fairly spread out, and mostly small. Some of the bigger
> chunks are for new self tests (both bpf and kvm), and outside of those
> new tests the diffstat looks nice and flat (ie lots of smaller changes
> rather than big peaks). Networking (both core and drivers) does stand
> out, but there are filesystem fixes too (xfs, nfs, cifs), various
> random driver subsystems (sound, i2c, tty, usb, iio, scsi, spi..). And
> some arch updates (mostly kvm-related, but small arm64, s390, MIPS
> fixes - and some powerpc perf event descriptions too).
> 
> Please do go test, and let's make sure 5.13 is solid.
> 
Build results:
	total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 462 pass: 462 fail: 0

Guenter