Re: Linux 4.19-rc7

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 14:43:22 EST


On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 9:48 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Yet again, it's time for a kernel -rc release. This one is bigger than
> -rc6 was, for a variety of unrelated reasons it seems. Lots of
> different trees being merged this week, much more so than the previous
> one. Highlights include two sets of networking fixes, lots of different
> driver subsystem fixes, arm and arm64 and x86 and riscv and powerpc64
> fixes, as well as scheduler, iommu, and vfs fixes. Not a huge quantity
> overall, just overall a lot of different things.
>
> Given the current rate of change, and looking at the travel/conference
> schedule happening this month, it seems like we will be having a -rc8
> just to be sure 4.19 is solid as well as not having to be in the middle
> of a merge window during a conference week. Please go test and make
> sure any remaining problems are sent in in time.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
Compiled and booted on my test system. I haven't seen any new issues compared
to 4.19-rc6

thanks,
-- Shuah