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Linux 6.16-rc6
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Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc6 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.16-rc6 for testing; it includes a fix for a somewhat scary regression that came up over the week.
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Linux 6.16-rc6 [LWN.net]
So I had a little scare this week, noticing some odd instability on Thursday, and basically then lost a day to trying to figure that whole thing out. The fix ended up being a simple revert in the end, but for a while there I was getting "Uh-oh, we're in trouble" vibes, because I had trouble reproducing the issue consistently, and it wasn't at all obvious even what subsystem had broken things.
So I was flailing around blaming everybody and their pet hamster, because for a while it looked like a drm issue and then a netlink problem (it superficially coincided with separate issues with both of those subsystems).
But I did eventually figure out how to trigger it reliably and then it bisected nicely, and a couple of days have passed, and I'm feeling much better about the release again. We're back on track, and despite that little scare, I think we're in good shape.
Below you'll find the shortlog for the week - no real pattern stands out. It's random fixes spread out fairly evenly, so we've got a bit of everything: drivers, arch fixes, filesystems, networking, tooling, documentation.
We've got a couple more weeks to go for this release, let's hope they go more smoothly than the last one. But please do keep testing,
Linus