Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc7

[Posted September 25, 2022 by corbet]

The 6.0-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing.

So I was thinking rc7 might end up larger than usual due to travel hitting rc6, but it doesn't really seem to have happened.
Yeah, maybe it's marginally bigger than the historical average for this time of the release cycle, but it definitely isn't some outlier, and it looks fairly normal. Which is all good, and makes me think that the final release will happen right on schedule next weekend, unless something unexpected happens. Knock wood.

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Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc7

Posted Sep 26, 2022 3:12 UTC (Mon) by rolexhamster (guest, #158445) [Link]

This confusing and outdated "prepatch" label really needs to be dropped. It's not 1996 anymore.

6.0-rc7 is not a prepatch (prepatch to what?) -- it's a Release Candidate (RC).

Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc7

Posted Sep 26, 2022 10:00 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

with the caveat that at most the two last rc are truly intended as release candidate.

Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc7

Posted Sep 26, 2022 11:18 UTC (Mon) by yodermk (guest, #3803) [Link]

Yeah and that drives me nuts. The RC naming is definitely wrong up till rc7. rc1/2 should probably be alphas and 3-6 betas.

Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc7

Posted Sep 26, 2022 13:08 UTC (Mon) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]

Linus intentionally does not give the releases beta/alpha blessing. Rc does not mean release candidate in kernel context.
All rcs shall be tested as if they were release candidates.

Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc7

Posted Sep 27, 2022 8:44 UTC (Tue) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]

Why stop at beta? I say we call the first rc "alpha", the second "beta", the third "gamma", the forth "delta" etc.

Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc7

Posted Sep 27, 2022 11:20 UTC (Tue) by johannbg (guest, #65743) [Link]

"This confusing and outdated "prepatch" label really needs to be dropped. It's not 1996 anymore."
?
Pre as in before the next release, Patch as in it is a patch.
Pretty self-explanatory and more descriptive then "Release Candidate (RC)".