From: Linus Torvalds @ --  : UTC (permalink / raw)

  To: Linux List Kernel Mailing

So this was a fairly unusual merge window with the holidays, and as a

result I'm not even going to complain about the pull requests that

ended up coming in late. It all mostly worked out fine, I think. And

lot of people got their pull requests in early, and hopefully had a

calm holiday season. Thanks again to everybody.

The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you

want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and

toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0. There's no nice git object

numerology this time (we're _about_ 6.5M objects in the git repo), and

there isn't any major particular feature that made for the release

numbering either. Of course, depending on your particular interests,

some people might well find a feature _they_ like so much that they

think it can do as a reason for incrementing the major number.

So go wild. Make up your own reason for why it's 5.0.

Because as usual, there's a lot of changes in there. Not because this

merge window was particularly big - but even our smaller merge windows

aren't exactly small. It's a very solid and average merge window with

just under 11k commits (or about .5k if you count merges).

The stats look fairly normal. About % is drivers, % is

architecture updates, % is tooling, and the remaining % is all

over (documentation, networking, filesystems, header file updates,

core kernel code..). Nothing particular stands out, although I do like

seeing how some ancient drivers are getting put out to pasture

(*cought*isdn*cough*).

As usual even the shortlog is much too big to post, so the summary

below is only a list of the pull requests I merged.

Go test. Kick the tires. Be the first kid on your block running a 5.0

pre-release kernel.

              Linus