Linux 4.12 Gained A Lot Of Weight: More Than One Million New Lines

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.12 Gained A Lot Of Weight: More Than One Million New Lines

With big merges this cycle from the DRM additions, a lot of new staging code, and more, the Linux 4.12 kernel is a bit heavier... Here's some numbers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.12-Post-Merge-Git-Stats

[boxie]

inb4 "OMG BLOAT" :P

[eydee]

So why not rename it to Linux 47.0?

[Jumbotron]

Will 4.12 become an LTS release ?

[bridgman]

3 million blank lines....

For all those people complaining that the kernel is getting too big, I have an easy solution

[jacob]

Interesting stats, I had no idea that there was some Pascal in Linux! Which part is it?

[nanonyme]

Interesting stats, I had no idea that there was some Pascal in Linux! Which part is it?

Probably just a bug in detection tool

[milkylainen]

inb4 "OMG BLOAT" :P

Indeed bloatware. Even an minimal Linux kernel is ridiculously big nowdays.
Most of the stuff end up in isolated drivers, but quite a lot end up in basic subsystem and core which all add up over time.
Even a completely naked x86-64 bzImage is on the 2M+ side.

[starshipeleven]

Indeed bloatware. Even an minimal Linux kernel is ridiculously big nowdays.
Most of the stuff end up in isolated drivers, but quite a lot end up in basic subsystem and core which all add up over time.
Even a completely naked x86-64 bzImage is on the 2M+ side.

And that is an issue because?
Also "ridicolously big" is a very personal opinion there. It's not like there are x86-64 systems where that has any real impact.

[coder]

And that is an issue because?
Also "ridicolously big" is a very personal opinion there. It's not like there are x86-64 systems where that has any real impact.

...as if x86-64 is the only platform that matters.