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posted by martyb on Saturday July 08 2017, @02:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the busy-people dept.

OMG! Ubuntu! reports

The arrival of the Linux Kernel 4.12 at the weekend brought a boat load of big changes (including two I/O schedulers) but do you know how big it is?

Well, it's easy to see in this chart shared by kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman which details exactly how big the release is. graphic

"Linux 4.12 is big, really big, like bigger than you thought big", [Greg] says in an update on his Google+ profile.

It took 63 days to create Linux 4.12, during which a total of 14,570 commits were made across 59,806 files.

With 24,170,860 [...] lines of code in the Linux kernel 4.12, that works out at a boggling 795.58 lines of code added per hour.

Linus Torvalds commented on the size of the latest stable release in his mailing list post to announce the release, saying:

"As mentioned over the various rc announcements, 4.12 is one of the bigger releases historically, and I think only 4.9 ends up having had more commits [...] 4.12 is just plain big."


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:41AM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:41AM (#536420) Journal

    Exactly. Where are all these sets of eyes that are supposed to be Reading all this code?

    If each of us able to to read and comprehend enen the simplest module were to adopt one single program, we still couldn't even gloss through the kernel and drivers, and almost certainly couldn't find any significant errors.
    Lots of code is lots of problems.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @11:50AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday July 08 2017, @11:50AM (#536498) Journal

    In other words, simple and small code is good code (usually).

  • (Score: 2) by http on Saturday July 08 2017, @06:16PM

    by http (1920) on Saturday July 08 2017, @06:16PM (#536595)

    That's a wild misinterpretation of the Linus's Law (coined by ESR), which is "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

    Nowhere does it say everyone has to read the code, or even that they should, or even that it's a good idea. Or even most coders on a project. The point Raymond was underlining is that with open code, it's easy to collaborate and find the origin of a particular bug. This task is at right angles to both auditing commits and fixing bugs.

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