Re: Linux 6.12-rc1

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 03:51:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So two weeks have passed, and rc1 is out - the merge window is closed.
> 
> Despite conference travel (both for me and several maintainers),
> things seemed to go mostly fairly normally. There's a couple of
> notable new features in here: For one thing, PREEMPT_RT is now
> mainlined and enabled as a config option (you do need to enable
> "EXPERT" to get the question). For another, sched_ext also got merged.
> 
> That said, the bulk is - as always - all the plain old regular
> updates, and that obviously means drivers dominate. We've got about
> 55% of the patch being drivers (and another 5% if you count the dts
> files). Add in 5% doc updates, and 10% tooling (mostly perf and
> selftests).
> 
> That leaves about a quarter of the overall changes as core kernel
> code, split between arch updates, filesystems (yes, bcachefs, but also
> btrfs, smb sever and client, netfs updates, xfs and finally core VFS
> updates mostly in the form of 'struct fd' re-organisational cleanups).
> And MM, core networking, Rust, security layer updates etc.
> 
> A little bit of everything, in other words. And nothing really looks
> all that strange. As always, the summary below is just the log of my
> merges, there's too much to list individually (some stats: 11k+
> regular commits,  850+ merges, 1700+ different authors).
> 
> Let's get the testing and calming down period started, ok?
> 

Fails to build on big endian systems. I'll send a patch in a minute.

Guenter