Re: Linux 5.12-rc5

[Guenter Roeck]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 04:05:54PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So if rc4 was perhaps a bit smaller than average, it looks like rc5 is
> a bigger than average.  We're not breaking any records, but it
> certainly isn't tiny, and the rc's aren't shrinking.
> 
> I'm not overly worried yet, but let's just say that the trend had
> better not continue, or I'll start feeling like we will need to make
> this one of those releases that need an rc8.
> 
> Most of the changes are drivers (gpu and networking stand out, but
> there's various other smaller driver updates elsewhere too) with core
> networking (including bpf) fixes being another noticeable subsystem.
> 
> Other than that, there's a smattering of noise all over: minor arch
> fixes, some filesystem fixes (btrfs, cifs, squashfs), selinux, perf
> tools, documentation.
> 
> io_uring continues to have noise in it, this time mainly due to some
> signal handling fixes. That removed a fair amount of problematic
> special casing, but the timing certainly isn't great.
> 
> So again, nothing really scary, just rather more than I would have
> liked to have in an rc5.
> 
> Shortlog appended for people who want to delve into the details,
> 

Build results:
	total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 458 pass: 457 fail: 1
Failed tests:
	openrisc:or1ksim_defconfig

This is not really a new problem. I enabled devicetree unit tests
in the openrisc kernel and was rewarded with a crash.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210327224116.69309-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
has all the glorious details.

Guenter