Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756880AbXJYNRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:17:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753480AbXJYNRY (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:17:24 -0400 Received: from wombat.diezmil.com ([209.190.27.106]:53206 "EHLO wombat.diezmil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083AbXJYNRX (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:17:23 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1940 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:17:23 EDT Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:45:03 -0400 Message-ID: <27752604.1193316303106.JavaMail.root@wombat.diezmil.com> From: edz_mania@yahoo.com Reply-To: edz_mania@yahoo.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2671 Lines: 59 -- Linus Torvalds wrote : This may count as one of the biggest -rc releases ever. It's humongous. Usually the compressed -rc1 diffs are in the 3-5MB range, with occasional smaller ones, and the occasional ones that top 6M, but this one is *eleven* megs. I'd blame the x86 renames (and the watchdog ones), but the thing is, it's absolutely huge even when I generate the diff with git turning all those renames into relatively small rename diffs (which I don't do for the public diffs, since I expect that git people use git to get the changes, and non-git people won't have tools that understand a diff that involves renames). In short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, but also tons of new drivers (wireless networking stands out, but is by no means the only thing - we've got dvb, regular wired network, mmc etc all joining in), and a fair amount or architecture stuff, filesystems, networking etc too. So there's just lots of new stuff. The diffstat is ten thousand lines long, and weighing in at comfortably over half a megabyte it is way over the limits of this - or any sane - mailing list. The shortlog is barely shorter, weighing in at "just" 8461 lines and almost 400k. The full changelog (which I'm still producing for y'all, since people told me they actually care last time I asked) is 4 megs. In other words, I don't even know where to start. The big noticeable thing is the x86 merge, and I think we all fervently hope that it won't cause any issues. So far it's been pretty smooth sailing. Knock wood. Less smooth has the scatter-gather changes to the block layer been, but they are hopefully all in reasonable shape by now too. And the VM changes? I honestly hope nobody even notices. Same goes for some of the VFS layer changes that affected basically every filesystem (although in mostly very straightforward ways). Just for fun, I'd really encourage git users to just try the git shortlog v2.6.23.. thing, it really is quite impressive. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger... More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- This message was sent on behalf of edz_mania@yahoo.com at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/7843899.html - 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/