Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/334] 5.10.252-rc2 review

From: Ben Hutchings

Date: Sun Mar 08 2026 - 06:26:24 EST


On Sat, 2026-03-07 at 08:20 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 08:19:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2026-03-02 at 11:10 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.252 release.
> > > There are 334 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.
> >
> > And yet they were not.
>
> I don't think we ever did post the series for -rc2+, did we?
[...]

The patches for rc1 also weren't sent, or at least none of them reached
the stable list. And rc2 normally only adds or removes a small number
of patches identified in the review of rc1, but this rc2 added nearly
200 for no clear reason.

Ben.

--
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.

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