Re: Linux 6.3-rc3

Guenter Roeck
2023-03-20T20:07:53Z

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 01:50:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So rc3 is fairly big, but that's not hugely usual: it's when a lot of
> the fixes tick up as it takes a while before people find and start
> reporting issues.
>
> And nothing here looks hugely worrisome. The diffstat looks a bit
> unusual in that there are relatively big changes to the scripts and
> selftest directories, but that's mainly due to the git-ignore script
> removal and some kvm selftest cleanups respectively. Nothing scary.
>
> If you ignore those parts, it's a fairly standard "two thirds drivers,
> one third rest" thing. The drivers are all over, but networking, gpu
> and sound are the usual big ones, with the fbdev code showing up
> mainly just because of a coding style fixup to the logo conversion
> scripting (mainly to use proper tab indentation). The qcom
> interconnect driver also shows up for major cleanup and fixes.
>
> Outside of those areas, it's a random collection of fixes: the usual
> arch updates (much - but not all - of it being kvm), some filesystem
> fixes (mainly cifs), core networking, tracing, and some core mm fixes.
>
> Anyway, it's early days still, but nothing here looks particularly odd.
>
> Please test and report any issues you find,
>

No change since last week.

Build results:
total: 153 pass: 146 fail: 7
Failed builds:
alpha:allmodconfig
csky:allmodconfig
m68k:allmodconfig
openrisc:allmodconfig
parisc:allmodconfig
s390:allmodconfig
sparc64:allmodconfig
Qemu test results:
total: 520 pass: 520 fail: 0

Details are available/reported at
https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/mainline/.

Guenter