Re: Linux 5.16-rc1

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 5:58 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 02:28:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It's been two weeks, and the merge window is thus closed.
> >
> > I actually anticipated more problems during the merge window than we
> > hit - I was traveling with a laptop for a few days early on in the
> > merge window, and that's usually fairly painful. But - knock wood - it
> > all worked out fine. Partly thanks to a lot of people sending in their
> > pull requests fairly early, so that I could get a bit of a head start
> > before travels. But partly also because I didn't end up having any
> > "uhhuh, things aren't working and now I need to bisect where they
> > broke" events for me on any of my machines. At least yet.
> >
> > So who knows? Maybe this will be one of those painless releases where
> > everything just works.
> >
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Build results:
>         total: 153 pass: 141 fail: 12

Yeah, it doesn't look pretty.  See also
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211115155105.3797527-1-geert@linux-m68k.org

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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                                -- Linus Torvalds