Linux 5.12 Git Seeing New Code Land Following Winter Storm

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While the first week of a new merge window is often one of the busiest times for Linus Torvalds in overseeing the Linux kernel, until last night there was no actual Linux 5.12 code being pushed into the Linux Git repository. Linus was offline most of the week due to winter storms preventing him from pushing to the Git repository and interacting much with the mailing list.Texas had all the attention this past week for their massive outages, but Portland also experienced a brutal winter storm last weekend. The Oregon winter storm knocked out power to thousands and ended up interfering with the start of the Linux 5.12 merge window.It seems since Saturday evening though Linus Torvalds is back online as pull requests have begun to be honored with new code now hittingthe Git tree.Besides the lack of Git activity, Linus Torvalds was also absent from mailing list discussions. Yesterday he did respond to a comment on the kernel mailing list but aside from that his last comments were shortly af…