It's been two weeks since 3.14 was released, and -rc1 of 3.15 is now
tagged and pushed out, and the patches and tar-balls are going through
the compressors on kernel.org as I write this. Which means that the
merge window is closed, and people should send me fixes only.
And quite frankly, it's about time. This release doesn't really have a
lot of odd things going on, but it's *big*. Sure, we've had releases
with more files and lines changed (3.7-rc1 and 3.11-rc1 in
particular), but those tended to have something particular going on
(3.7-rc1 saw the largely automated UAPI header file disintegration,
and 3.11 saw the bug staging lustre merge).
In comparison to those large releases, 3.15-rc1 is just big in
general. No single big thing, but just lots and lots of commits. Sure,
it has a few big new staging drivers (rtl8723au in particular), but
even when big, those aren't nearly the bulk of things. There's just a
lot going on
In fact, we have the biggest number of commits in recent history
(maybe ever), at just over 12000 non-merge commits (and about 800
merges).
And it really is all over the map. The bulk is driver changes, at
about three quarters of the actual patch. Staging shows up pretty
prominently, but it's really all over the driver map, with networking,
sound, media, gpu, block drivers..)
But there's tons of non-driver stuff too. Outside of the driver
subdirectories, architecture updates account for about half the
changes (with ARM leading the way, largely due to device-tree
descriptors, but there's mips, x86, powerpc, s390, blackfin..). And
the rest is pretty varied too, with core networking, documentation,
kernel, mm, tools etc.
So while drivers and architecture updates are the bulk of it, we
really do have a lot of core changes too.
Anyway, even more than usual, the -rc1 is much too big to include a
shortlog of all commits. But the shortlog of merges I've done might
give at least some overview of all the changes. As usual, the people
credited in the mergelog are the maintainers I pull from, not the
developers that wrote the code. You can see that in the full git logs.
Anyway, because -rc1 is already pretty darn big, I do *not* want to
hear about "sorry this missed the window, can I still sneak in". Fixes
only.
The only exception to that is a couple of pending things that came in
during the merge window, but were explicitly delayed. So we do have a
fbdev file movement pending (I'll do the file movement after -rc1 just
to make things easier to see in the history and not mix up movement
with development). And there was one namespaces/mounting pull request
that I didn't pull, but that might still make it in after some more
commentary/work. That will *probably* be delayed 3.16, but we'll see
how much TLC that thing needs..
Linus
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Al Viro (1):
vfs updates
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Andrew Morton (3):
first patch-bomb
second patch-bomb
a few more patches
Arnd Bergmann (8):
ARM SoC non-critical bug fixes
ARM SoC cleanups
ARM SoC specific changes
ARM SoC board changes
ARM SoC device tree changes
ARM SoC driver changes
ARM SoC sh driver change
ARM SoC late cleanups
Artem Bityutskiy (1):
ubifs updates
Behan Webster (1):
llvm patches
Ben Herrenschmidt (3):
main powerpc updates
powerpc non-virtualized cpuidle
more powerpc updates
Ben LaHaise (1):
aio ctx->ring_pages migration serialization fix
Bjorn Helgaas (1):
PCI changes
Boaz Harrosh (1):
exofs updates
Borislav Petkov (1):
EDAC updates
Brian Norris (1):
MTD updates
Bruce Fields (1):
nfsd updates
Bryan Wu (1):
LED updates
Catalin Marinas (2):
ARM64 updates
second set of arm64 updates
Chris Ball (1):
MMC updates
Chris Mason (2):
btrfs changes
second set of btrfs updates
Chris Metcalf (1):
arch/tile updates
Dan Williams (1):
async SCSI resume support
Dave Airlie (1):
drm updates
Dave Chinner (1):
xfs update
David Miller (3):
networking updates
more networking updates
yet more networking updates
David Teigland (1):
dlm updates
David Vrabel (2):
Xen features and fixes
Xen build fix
Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input updates
Eric Paris (1):
audit updates
Eric Van Hensbergen (1):
9p changes
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates
Grant Likely (1):
devicetree changes
Greg KH (6):
char/misc driver patches
driver core and sysfs updates
staging driver updates
tty/serial driver update
USB patches
more staging patches
Greg Ungerer (1):
m68k fixes
Guenter Roeck (2):
hwmon updates
second round of hwmon updates
Hans-Christian Egtvedt (1):
AVR32 updates
Heiko Carstens (1):
s390 compat wrapper rework
Herbert Xu (1):
crypto updates
Ingo Molnar (21):
core locking updates
RCU updates
hweight type fix
perf changes
scheduler changes
x86 acpi numa fix
x86 apic changes
x86 build change
x86 cleanups
x86 cpu handling changes
x86 debug cleanup
x86 EFI changes
x86 hashing changes
x86 hype
