On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:31:57AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 10:55:01PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.13.2 release. There are 800 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Wed, 14 Jul 2021 06:02:46 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.13.2-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.13.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.13.2-rc1
Hi Greg,
Sorry to be making waves, but please, what's up with the 5.13.2-rc, 5.12.17-rc, 5.10.50-rc, 5.4.132-rc stable release candidates?
They show the problem that we currently have where maintainers wait at the end of the -rc cycle and keep valid fixes from being sent to Linus. They "bunch up" and come out only in -rc1 and so the first few stable releases after -rc1 comes out is huge. It's been happening for the past few years and only getting worse. These stable releases are proof of that, the 5.13.2-rc release was the largest we have ever done and it broke one of my scripts because of it :(
I know personally I do this for my subsystems, having fixes that are trivial things batch up for -rc1 just because they are generally not worth getting into -final. But that is not the case with many other subsystems as you can see by these huge patch sequences.
Hm, maybe it really isn't a "problem" here, as the % overall is still quite low of patches with fixes: and cc: stable on them compared to the overall number of commits going in for -rc1 vs. later -rcX releases.
So it's just what it is, large numbers of changes happening, small % of them are needed to be backported. If someone wanted to, odds are they could get a master's thesis out of analyzing all of this stuff :)
thanks,
greg k-h