Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:10:41 +0200 | From | Dominik Brodowski <> | Subject | Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 |
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:01:57AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > We actually have a fair amount of other removal and cleanups too. I > > was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the number of pull requests that > > actually ended up removing a lot of lines. Some of it was staging > > drivers that finally gave up the ghost (like irda), but we also got > > rid of some copyright language boiler-plate in favor of just the spdx > > lines. And some pre-shipped lexer/parser files are no more, we're > > better off just generating them. > > > > End result: we actually removed more lines than we added: > > > > 13538 files changed, 627723 insertions(+), 818855 deletions(-) > > > > which is probably a first. Ever. In the history of the universe. Or at > > least kernel releases. > > > > I'd call it momentous, but I think the arch removal was most of it, > > and I'm sure people will quickly rectify that momentary glitch of > > actually shrinking the kernel source code. > > For the first time ever(?), we also had a kernel size reduction, according > to bloat-o-meter (for an m68k atari_defconfig kernel): > > add/remove: 341/440 grow/shrink: 445/359 up/down: 60125/-133422 (-73297) > > which brings us (size-wise) back to v4.13-and-a-half. > This is mostly attributed to the removal of lots of SyS_* functions.
Please note that the SyS_* stubs were renamed to __se_sys_* () [__se for sign-extending], which bloat-o-meter does not handle well.
Thanks, Dominik
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