ONE MILLION new lines of code hit Linux Kernel 4.2

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4.2 rc1 is biggest … release … candidate … EVER

The Linux Lord writes that “if you count the size in pure number of lines changed, this really seems to be the biggest rc we've ever had, with over a million lines added (and about a quarter million removed).”

Most of those new lines of code come from “the new amd gpu register description header”, code that Torvalds says comprises “41 per cent of the entire patch” and has created a “... somewhat odd situation where a single driver is about half of the whole rc1 in number of lines.”

Also new to version 4.2 are the Renesas H8/300 architecture, “in a newly cleaned-up form” and “quite a bit of low-level x86 changes: both source code re-organization for x86 entry code and lots of FPU handling cleanups.”

Read the full story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/06/one_million_new_lines_of_code_hit_linux_kernel/
 
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