On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 06:32:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's been a normal merge window, and I'm releasing according to the > normal schedule. The few days of travel didn't seem to matter, as I > had internet access at all times. > > The merge window is pretty normal in terms of what got merged too. > Just eyeballing the size, it looks like this is going to fit right in > - while 4.0 was a bit smaller than usual, 4.1 seems to be smack dab in > the middle of the normal range for the last couple of years. And all > the patch statistics look normal as well: the bulk of the changes are > to drivers (just under 60% of the patch), with arch updates being > about 20% of it all, and the rest is spread all over. > > No earth-shattering new features come to mind, even if initial support > for ACPI on arm64 looks funny. Depending on what you care about, your > notion of "big new feature" may differ from mine, of course. There's a > lot of work all over, and some of it might just make a big difference > to your use cases. > > So go out and test. Even -rc1, as raw as it may sometimes be, has > tended to be pretty good. It's not that scary. Promise. >
Build results: total: 123 pass: 115 fail: 8 Failed builds: m68k:allmodconfig mips:allmodconfig mips:nlm_xlp_defconfig mips:cavium_octeon_defconfig mips:malta_defconfig s390:allmodconfig score:defconfig xtensa:allmodconfig Qemu test results: total: 30 pass: 27 fail: 3 Failed tests: mips:mips_malta_smp_defconfig mips:mipsel_malta_smp_defconfig mips64:mips_malta64_smp_defconfig Good news is that there are patches waiting to be applied which fix all the above build problems. score: Fix exception handler label [1] xtensa: Provide dummy dma_alloc_attrs() and dma_free_attrs() [2] mips: Fix SMP builds [3] spi: bcm2835: Add GPIOLIB dependency [4] Guenter --- [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6221401/ [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6252861/ [3] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6250441/ [4] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6213711/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/