Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751086AbaLUFJL (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:09:11 -0500 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:49889 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750705AbaLUFJJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:09:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:08:54 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.19-rc1 - merge window closed Message-ID: <20141221050854.GA23583@roeck-us.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Authenticated_sender: guenter@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-CTCH-PVer: 0000001 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.549655FD.006F,ss=1,re=0.001,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-Score: 0.001 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: C_4847, X-CTCH-SenderID: linux@roeck-us.net X-CTCH-SenderID-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalMessages: 2 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSpam: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSuspected: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalConfirmed: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalBulk: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalVirus: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalRecipients: 0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: mailgid no entry from get_relayhosts_entry X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 05:43:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So it's been a day less than two weeks, and the merge window is closed. > > Considering how much came in fairly late, I find it hard to care about > anybody who had decided to cut it even closer than some people already > did. That said, maybe there aren't any real stragglers - and judging > by the size of rc1, there really can't have been much. Not only do I > think there are more commits than there were in linux-next, this is > one of the bigger rc1's (at least by commits) historically. We've had > bigger ones (3.10 and 3.15 both had large merge windows leading up to > them), but this was definitely not a small merge window. > > Anyway, we've got changes all over the place, including a new > architecture (nios2). My "short mergelog" is appended, and as usual I > want to point out that that credits the people sending me the changes, > which is generally not necessarily at all the same thing as the people > actually writing the code, even if there is obviously overlap. > > In the "big picture", this looks like a fairly normal release. About > two thirds driver updates, with about half of the rest being > architecture updates (and no, the new nios2 patches are not at all > dominant, it's about half ARM, with the new nios2 support being less > than 10% of the arch updates by lines overall). The remaining one > sixth is "misc": networking, header updates, documentation, > filesystems, tooling, and core kernel (in pretty much that order). > > Obviously, with the holidays coming up, I'd expect that the next few > weeks are pretty quiet, but we'll see. I do hope that people will have > time to test this all in between all the eggnog, > There are at least the never-resting auto-testers, which for mine report: Build tests: total: 133 pass: 133 fail: 0 Qemu tests: total: 30 pass: 30 fail: 0 Details at http://server.roeck-us.net:8010/builders. This is an absolute first; since I started testing, we never had an -rc1 with no build or qemu failures. Excellent job everyone! Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/