From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [198.175.65.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A40B1F5820 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.175.65.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1754918472; cv=none; b=mAeqTi+6Ur1GdiBWSldchErWSQlRxgXYQLeoOLO9LmJm/xgd8SqPe1UOA0yANM16sDvb+L5wjh2aAoOXhVgEjWZpvhFqrYoR9J43AXUPzH17LVTSUrI5FLs7Ky5baekroNd0yK4zLZZHnXuYdqu04HskZPv1au3lIRK1smvcpAM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1754918472; c=relaxed/simple; bh=A1TThLOoDEkiQlFyAVrtQhx629cMyOmSqpXLIw6U4yU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=g8DD9cdP6xD6t9p+F35CuiMIcZbW8XUxuTyLasGG80n47ERVVvNuIAojGKMVWJVWESZAMctOwfM1ien10Ra0TFONV+RO0yQVdGPwCSG49VHAcWIUkHPqLuZfwomesOiNZFUfest9nrJvUYUJFDY2CVuQUVqrUpK/6+5YU9z62+Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=intel.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=intel.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b=I2t8Vr4j; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.175.65.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b="I2t8Vr4j" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1754918470; x=1786454470; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references: mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=A1TThLOoDEkiQlFyAVrtQhx629cMyOmSqpXLIw6U4yU=; b=I2t8Vr4jd+jUEDpAVTr70ETogdcasThgcI77Xp+o0OR9y0EzTAF1DJqG 8lTv4YXXwYqyc1fDqI3kj0h2BHfhcDlXrUqNZkNTetARuiT7oZIs7z4F/ hQ8Vy16oCKKXsbkiZjiCreEBCyalFCCr+VewDdv6QRMX8T+qktLjooScU oDa4kYSTPEy/Df7LlbBnHAXjGt75d8/M3TdX/DEvWl/XpyIXJz3ZODOVP gnK2Nof4YxghTRZ+Nw7wkjJ3FUkSh92fcMkP3pplhAX1K7VrCqaya3qu9 ydNsoZyfrtQ34mvPPrX2itkLgGhG9vyBuA3x1uuagGDavhE4S61wNzAjY A==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: XQtHdnNGTMaquz6K4bEcKA== X-CSE-MsgGUID: Y8ta1B4kSXCaj4ENTBCGWA== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11518"; a="67439435" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.17,278,1747724400"; d="scan'208";a="67439435" Received: from fmviesa003.fm.intel.com ([10.60.135.143]) by orvoesa103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 11 Aug 2025 06:21:08 -0700 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: IB80K2C/R72kfq9K+MD+bQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: HTj0ihfSRey0qtxwcu9/Hg== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.17,278,1747724400"; d="scan'208";a="170032382" Received: from black.igk.intel.com ([10.91.253.5]) by fmviesa003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Aug 2025 06:21:07 -0700 Received: by black.igk.intel.com (Postfix, from userid 1003) id D699F94; Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:21:05 +0200 From: Andy Shevchenko To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 6.17-rc1 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 08:08:47PM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So two weeks have passed, and depending on how you see it, rc1 is > either earlier than usual (it's only Sunday morning back home in the > usual timezone) or later than usual (because it's getting to be Sunday > evening here in Finland where I'm cutting the release). I decided to > basically split the difference on my usual "early Sunday afternoon" > schedule. > > Anyway, due to travels, I wanted to do most of the heavy lifting the > first week, and I can happily report that that part worked out well. I > wouldn't want to do this most merge windows, but the bulk of the work > was done before travel, and that meant that the straggler pulls were > manageable while traveling. Thanks to everybody who got their pulls in > early - you know who you are. > > And the late stragglers then got a slightly more annoyed Linus as a > result. Sorry about that. > > Anyway, the merge window did end up looking fairly healthy, despite me > having to go through a couple of bisections for trouble spots (one > during travels with a laptop - not optimal, but thankfully it was at > least one of the "reliable symptoms that bisect right to the culprit" > kind). The stats look pretty normal both in patch size and in number > of commits. That number being large enough that - as always - you only > get the mergelog below as a kind of "view from 10,000ft" of the > development process this time around. > > Please do get started testing and fixing, FWIW, it's broken in c couple of places for `make W=1` builds, details below. ext4: commit 261a2abe20b0 ("ext4: fix unused variable warning in ext4_init_new_dir") in Linux Next, but missed rc1 timers, etc (clang only): discussion and partial fix is here https://lore.kernel.org/all/aIo18KZpmKuR4hVZ@black.igk.intel.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250804220955.1453135-1-dan.j.williams@intel.com/ (haven't tested full allyesconfig and allmodconfig, though) -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko