Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm3

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:57:10AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 04 May 2005 22:10:57 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm3/
> > 
> > - device mapper updates
> > 
> > - more UML updates
> > 
> > - -mm seems unusually stable at present.
> 
> Indeed.  Line counts for the announcement e-mails for the 2.6.12-rc*-mm*:
> 
> 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 2345
> 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 3048
> 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 2861
> 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 2612
> 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 2460
> 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 2610
> 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 2763
> 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 1236
> 2.6.12-rc3-mm2  105
> 2.6.12-rc3-mm3  796
> 
> (Presuming that the linecounts are at least roughly proportional to the
> churn in patches added/merged/dropped).
>...

Your presumption is only correct starting with 2.6.12-rc3-mm1, because 
since 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 the announcements do no longer contain the big 
detailed listing of all patches in -mm.

cu
Adrian

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