Re: Linux 5.11-rc4

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Jan 18 2021 - 17:36:29 EST


On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 04:56:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Things continue to look fairly normal for this release: 5.11-rc4 is
> solidly average in size, and nothing particularly scary stands out.
>
> In the diff itself, the new ampere modesetting support shows up fairly
> clearly - it's one of those hardware enablement things that should be
> entirely invisible to people who don't have that hardware, but it does
> end up being about a fifth of the whole rc4 patch.
>
> If you ignore that oddity, the rest looks pretty normal, with random
> patches all over, and a lot of it being quite small. All the usual
> suspects: drivers (gpu, sound, rdma, md, networking..) arch updates
> (arm64, risc-v, x86), fiesystems (ext4, nfs, btrfs), core networking,
> documentation and tooling. And just random fixes.
>

Here are the test results:

Build results:
total: 153 pass: 151 fail: 2
Failed builds:
arm64:allmodconfig
ia64:defconfig
Qemu test results:
total: 430 pass: 428 fail: 2
Failed tests:
arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:initrd
arm:raspi2:multi_v7_defconfig:sd:bcm2836-rpi-2-b:rootfs

Same old ...

Guenter