Linux 6.5-rc2

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 17, 2023

No surprises here: this thing looks very normal. The patch stats are
about 60% drivers, with networking and gpu drivers being the bulk of
it, but there's a little bit of everything in there: nvme, pin
control, x86 platform drivers, HID, etc etc.


Ignoring drivers, it's a mixed set of fixes all over: architectures
(x86, powerpc, RISC-V, xtensa), some core networking (mainly
netfilter), core kernel (tracing, scheduler), filesystems (erofs, smb
client), and documentation and selftests.


And some minor noise elsewhere.


Full shortlog appended, but nothing in there looks particularly
thrilling. Unless, of course, it happened to fix a bug that affected
you.


Or maybe you're the kind of person who finds CFI annotations and
getting all the endbr64 annotations right to be endlessly fascinating.
In which case you're having a really good Sunday.


But please - don't think of this as "not very interesting", but more
as a "this looks safe to test, and it's not like I have anything
better to do".


Right?


              Linus

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