Post #3331740

Updated my #Linux #kernel stats document now that #LinuxKernel 7.1 is out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_yH7lFmZxAoSWrtsd8tGu3befG4zIcMnytB1ml4pQQM/edit?usp=sharing One thing stood out: the number of commits during the merge window went up for the past two releases, like due to the AI effect. Will be interesting to see if they will go down again soon after Linus pushed back in the last -rc5 release announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjt1NiKOdyAMz_DT7NmZ++SizPOhRSi492ukdTnpDzHQw@mail.gmail.com/ To quote a few bits: ""[…] rc5 is pretty big. Quite a bit bigger than rc5's have traditionally been. I'm not entirely happy about it - […]. 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.""