A világ nem állt meg, áll Linus levelében. Tesztelhető az 5.17-es kernel hatodik prepatche:
Nobody can claim that last week was *normal*, but whatever crazy
things are going on in the world (and I personally had "Zombie
apocalypse" on my bingo card, not "Putin has a mental breakdown"), it
doesn't seem to have affected the kernel much.
Things continue to look normal both in commit numbers and in
diffstats. We have the usual bulk being drivers (networking, gpu, iio,
clk, and usb stand out, but there's a smattering of other stuff), with
the rest being mixed. The only thing that stands out as a bit unusual
is some further btrfs defrag fixes. But even they stand out not so
much because they are enormous, as just because they are bigger than
most of the rest, which is pretty small.
Other notable areas: core networking, tracing, and selftests. As
usual, details are in the appended shortlog.
While things look reasonably normal, we _are_ getting pretty late in
the release, and we still have a number of known regressions. They
don't seem all that big and scary, but some of them were reported
right after the rc1 release, so they are getting a bit long in the
tooth. I'd hate to have to delay 5.17 just because of them, and I'm
starting to be a bit worried here. I think all the affected
maintainers know who they are...
So if you are a subsystem maintainer, and you have one of those
regressions on your list, please go make them a priority. And if you
don't know what I'm talking about, please do look up the reports by
regzbot and Guenter Roeck. I added links below to make it really easy.
But on the whole things look fine. Just a few remaining warts is all.
But the more testing to verify, the better.
Linus