Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch has been released for testing, but Linus Torvalds expresses dissatisfaction with its contents. He believes that many of the changes are trivial and not worth including at this stage of the release cycle. Torvalds plans to be more selective about accepting non-critical fixes moving forward.
- ▪The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is now available for testing.
- ▪Linus Torvalds is not entirely happy with the trivial changes included in this release.
- ▪He intends to push back against unnecessary pull requests as the release cycle progresses.
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The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Quoth Linus: I'm not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary, but at the same time I'm really not convinced the churn is worth it at rc5 time. These things are "fixes", sure, but at the same time a lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they'd be better off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window. So I think I'll start being a bit more hardnosed about this kind of unnecessary churn this late in the game. We are supposed to look for *regressions*. Non-critical fixes to long-standing issues are simply not appropriate for this late in the release cycle.
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