Linux 6.9-rc3

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 08, 2024

• Linux 6.9-rc3

  Ok, so this rc3 looks a bit different than the usual ones, because
  there's a large series to bcachefs to do filesystem repair after
  corruption. Not normally something we'd see in an rc kernel, but hey,
  if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this,
  and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to
  sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap.
  
  
  The bcachefs part is a bit over a third of the patch, and if you
  ignore that part, things look fairly normal, although there's perhaps
  a bit more sound SoC noise than is common.
  
  
  So the rest is mostly drivers (already mentioned sound, but also
  networking and gpu), architecture fixes (mainly x86 and s390, some
  arm64), some other filesystem noise (mainly smb client), some selftest
  updates, and a random smattering elsewhere.
  
  
  It's not really all that big, although the bcachefs changes do make it
  bigger than typical for an rc3.
  
  
  Shortlog appended, please keep testing,
  
  
                   Linus
  

• Linux 6.9-rc3

• Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc3

  The 6.9-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing.