linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.16-rc1

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Date:   Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:14:53 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.16-rc1

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 5:58 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 02:28:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It's been two weeks, and the merge window is thus closed.
> >
> > I actually anticipated more problems during the merge window than we
> > hit - I was traveling with a laptop for a few days early on in the
> > merge window, and that's usually fairly painful. But - knock wood - it
> > all worked out fine. Partly thanks to a lot of people sending in their
> > pull requests fairly early, so that I could get a bit of a head start
> > before travels. But partly also because I didn't end up having any
> > "uhhuh, things aren't working and now I need to bisect where they
> > broke" events for me on any of my machines. At least yet.
> >
> > So who knows? Maybe this will be one of those painless releases where
> > everything just works.
> >
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Build results:
>         total: 153 pass: 141 fail: 12

Yeah, it doesn't look pretty.  See also
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211115155105.3797527-1-geert@linux-m68k.org

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds