From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.17-rc1
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:06:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180416120650.6174a601@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx62iBkj+hOmhLksUtvjwTcm_o1dwcyvaNnVpJ-AmvzVQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:55:38 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> End result: we actually removed more lines than we added:
>
> 13538 files changed, 627723 insertions(+), 818855 deletions(-)
>
> which is probably a first. Ever. In the history of the universe. Or at
> least kernel releases.
For the curious...that's not quite the case. We shrunk a bit for 2.6.36,
due to the removal of all those defconfig files. 3.17 was also slightly
smaller than 3.16 - removal of POWER3 and a whole bunch of staging stuff.
So...third time's the charm!
Of course, one could look at the numbers involved and conclude that a
release with more lines removed than added is a harbinger of a dot-zero
release in the near future :)
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-16 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-16 1:55 Linus Torvalds
2018-04-16 9:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-16 16:10 ` Dominik Brodowski
2018-04-16 18:06 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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