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OS PLATFORMS Last week, Linus Torvalds blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t go wrong. The Linux kernel boss decided to blame AI for a version 7.3 release candidate that was larger than usual. He wrote, “This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was. rc2 is usually the quietest time when people take a breather after the merge window and it takes a while to start finding bugs. But not this time—this is a ‘full fat’ rc release.” Torvalds said he couldn’t find a single cause for the big release. He noted, “I'd like to point to the late EDAC pull that was forgotten and didn't happen during the merge window, but honestly, that's a fairly small thing. No, rc2 had several filesystems sending in their fixes, and there's a fairly sizable drm pull with lots of scattered fixes. Along with networking and bpf sending in fixes. *And* a number of driver trees too.” Torvalds added, “Nothing looks particularly odd. It might be just random, but we'll obviously all blame it on AI, because whether that's really the cause or not, it's an easy thing to blame.”
Last week, Torvalds blamed himself for kernel complications in the post announcing the first release candidate for Linux 7.3. He wrote, “Nothing really stands out—except for the fact that it's big. It's not the biggest rc1 we've ever had, but it's certainly up there, at least in number of commits,” before admitting he ‘made it unnecessarily hard for myself by being a grade A nincompoop and doing a system upgrade in the middle, and then having to chase down an issue that caused.’ Torvalds said the situation ‘was entirely on me.’ He said, ‘I knew I shouldn't have done it, but I just naively went ‘nothing will go wrong.’ And hey, it was all good in the end, I just made this merge window harder for myself than I should have.’
Source: The Register
