From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753013AbeDPSGw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:06:52 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:58332 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752786AbeDPSGv (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:06:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:06:50 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 Message-ID: <20180416120650.6174a601@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:55:38 -0700 Linus Torvalds 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