linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.17-rc3

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Message-ID: <252824e6-c450-4757-83d0-9725b562ba3b@roeck-us.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:48:15 -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 3.17-rc3

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 12:22:08PM -0400, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm still traveling for family reasons, so slightly unusual timing for
> rc3, but it's (barely) afternoon here on the East coast, so the usual
> Sunday afternoon schedule technically still holds.
> 
> As suspected, rc3 ends up being a bit larger than usual, to balance
> out the tiny rc2. Yes, 3.17 seems to be generally in pretty good
> shape, but nobody *really* believed that it was as good as that tiny
> rc2 would make it seem.
> 
> And while rc3 is on the larger side, it's by no means anything
> outrageously so, it's well within the normal parameters.
> 
> The diffstat looks fairly normal too: about half drivers (spread all
> over, we've got a bit of everything, but mellanox mlx5 stands out if
> you want to pick out any particular area). There's a fair chunk of
> added selftests and some more Rust support, and then a random
> collection of fixes all over: architecture code, filesystems, VM and
> core networking.
> 
> Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle,
> nothing stands out. Please keep testing,
> 

Still nothing to report.

Build results:
	total: 162 pass: 162 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 637 pass: 637 fail: 0
Unit test results:
	pass: 640016 fail: 650

Fixes for the unit test failures are in the pipeline.

Guenter