Linux 3.10-rc4

Linux 3.10-rc4

[Linus Torvalds]

Another week, another -rc. But this time (at least for now) only as a git 
tree - for people actually using the tar-balls and patches, I apologize, 
but I'm a complete moron, and didn't install kup, its perl dependencies, 
and my kup release scripts on the pixel before the trip.

And while I can read and write email, and git is fine with just a few 
(flaky) kB/s internet throughput I have access to right now, installing 
the perl packages etc seems to be a pipe dream.

I suspect nobody actually uses the tar-balls and patches, since git is so 
much more convenient and efficient, so hopefully nobody cares. But I'll 
rectify the lack eventually. Hopefully within a day or two, as my "yum 
update" actually completes. And if not in a day or two, then when I get 
back home a few days later.

Anyway, rc4 is smaller than rc3 (yay!).  But it could certainly be smaller 
still (boo!). There's the usual gaggle of driver fixes (drm, pinctrl, scsi 
target, fbdev, xen), but also filesystems (cifs, xfs, with small fixes to 
reiserfs and nfs).

And arch updates: m68k (mostly defconfig updates), powerpc, arm and x86.

Go forth and test.

                           Linus

Re: Linux 3.10-rc4

[Randy Dunlap]

On 06/02/13 01:45, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Another week, another -rc. But this time (at least for now) only as a git 
> tree - for people actually using the tar-balls and patches, I apologize, 
> but I'm a complete moron, and didn't install kup, its perl dependencies, 
> and my kup release scripts on the pixel before the trip.
> 
> And while I can read and write email, and git is fine with just a few 
> (flaky) kB/s internet throughput I have access to right now, installing 
> the perl packages etc seems to be a pipe dream.
> 
> I suspect nobody actually uses the tar-balls and patches, since git is so 
> much more convenient and efficient, so hopefully nobody cares. But I'll 
> rectify the lack eventually. Hopefully within a day or two, as my "yum 
> update" actually completes. And if not in a day or two, then when I get 
> back home a few days later.

I still use tarballs and patches, fwiw.

I do expect that some day you will just completely drop doing those
and I will handle that (with some changes).

-- 
~Randy

Re: Linux 3.10-rc4

[Mikael Pettersson]

Randy Dunlap writes:
 > On 06/02/13 01:45, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > > 
 > > Another week, another -rc. But this time (at least for now) only as a git 
 > > tree - for people actually using the tar-balls and patches, I apologize, 
 > > but I'm a complete moron, and didn't install kup, its perl dependencies, 
 > > and my kup release scripts on the pixel before the trip.
 > > 
 > > And while I can read and write email, and git is fine with just a few 
 > > (flaky) kB/s internet throughput I have access to right now, installing 
 > > the perl packages etc seems to be a pipe dream.
 > > 
 > > I suspect nobody actually uses the tar-balls and patches, since git is so 
 > > much more convenient and efficient, so hopefully nobody cares. But I'll 
 > > rectify the lack eventually. Hopefully within a day or two, as my "yum 
 > > update" actually completes. And if not in a day or two, then when I get 
 > > back home a few days later.
 > 
 > I still use tarballs and patches, fwiw.

As do I.  For this one time the lack of a patch file is no big deal, but
please don't discontinue them permanently.

/Mikael

Re: Linux 3.10-rc4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Randy Dunlap writes:
>  > 
>  > I still use tarballs and patches, fwiw.
> 
> As do I.  For this one time the lack of a patch file is no big deal, but
> please don't discontinue them permanently.

The tar-ball is now there, courtesy of Konstantin. No patch-file, though.

And I won't discontinue the tar-balls/patch-files as long as there are 
users.  At least not in the near future.

              Linus