Re: Linux 6.12-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 06:15, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Pushed 5.12-rc1 too? Odd.

It's an old tag that was renamed to v5.12-rc1-dontuse when it was
found to have some particularly nasty problems:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjnzdLSP3oDxhf9eMTYo7GF-QjaNLBUH1Zk3c4A7X75YA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

For random reasons (read: I had an old repo) it re-materialized under
its old name, and because it was *so* co-incidental in naming (getting
pushed out at the same time as 6.12-rc1), I felt it was too good to
fix up again.

And if somebody goes and randomly starts using v5.12-rc1 (from
February 2021) and hits the swap problem, I can only go "why did you
do that?"

               Linus