Second RC of Linux 6.1

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 24, 2022

• Linux 6.1-rc2

  Hmm. Usually rc2 is a pretty quiet week, and it mostly started out
  that way too, but then things took a turn for the strange. End result:
  6.1-rc2 ended up being unusually large.
  
  
  The main reason is fairly benign, though: Mauro had screwed up the
  media tree pull request during the merge window, so rc2 ends up having
  a "oops, here's the part that was missing" moment. Since it had all
  been in linux-next (yes, I checked, so nobody else should try that
  trick), I ended up pulling that missing part during the rc2 week.
  
  
  But if you ignore that media tree portion, things look pretty normal for an rc2.
  
  
  Anyway, ignoring those media changes, we have a little bit of
  everything in here - arch updates, drivers (gpu, device mapper,
  networking), EFI, some core kernel fixes (mm, scheduler, cgroup,
  networking). The full shortlog is appended (and that shortlog does
  include the media pieces).
  
  
  Please do go test,
                   Linus
  

• Kernel prepatch 6.1-rc2 [LWN.net]

  The second 6.1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "Usually rc2 is a pretty quiet week, and it mostly started out that way too, but then things took a turn for the strange. End result: 6.1-rc2 ended up being unusually large."