Re: Linux 4.11-rc2

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Mon Mar 13 2017 - 09:29:01 EST


On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As usual, the week after rc1 tends to be fairly quiet when people are
> still looking for bugs and taking a breather after the merge window.
> But we've got a healthy number of fixes in, and there's some
> cleanup/prep patches for the upcoming 5-level page table support that
> I took after the merge window just to make the next merge window
> easier.
>
> There's also a (small) late random driver update.
>
> But most of it is just fixes, with arch and drivers being the bulk of
> it (powerpc and i915 stand out, respectively) but with a noticeable
> component elsewhere (mm patches mainly through Andrew, some fs
> updatres, radix tree test updates etc).
>
> Shortlog appended with details, go forth and test. I think we're in
> fine shape for this stage in the development kernel, it shouldn't be
> particularly scary to just say "I'll be a bit adventurous and test an
> rc2 kernel". Yes, it's early rc time still, but go on, help us make
> sure we're doing ok..

I thought it might just be me, but at least one other person doesn't
see the v4.11-rc2 tag in git yet. The patch is on kernel.org though,
so it's confusing. Did you forget to push it out?

josh