Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4
Linus has released 7.0-rc4 for testing.
Then Thursday hit with the networking pull. And then on Friday
everybody else decided to send in their work for the week, with a
few more trickling in over the weekend. End result: what had for a
short few days looked like a nice calm week turned into another
“bigger than usual” release candidate.To be fair, that “almost everything comes in at the end of the
week” is 100% normal, and none of this is surprising. I was
admittedly hoping that things would start to calm down, but that
was not to be.I no longer really believe that it was the one extra week we had
last release cycle: I’m starting to suspect it’s the psychological
result of “hey, new major number”, and people are just being a bit
more active as a result.
