Re: Linux 6.12-rc1

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:22:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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?"

Ah, I remember that ordeal. I suppose you've been testing out rc1 on
some different hardware and so old repos are found hither and thither.

Jason