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Linux 7.2-rc5
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Linux 7.2-rc5
It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5.
The same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the "new normal". But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side.
There are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that's something. But there's a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire - you get the idea).
And then there's everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation...
So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.
Linus -
Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc5
The 7.2-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "
So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary
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Neowin:
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Linux 7.2-rc5 lands with patches for HP EliteBook 830 G8 and Alienware x16 R2
Linux 7.2 looks as though it will be released on time thanks to yet another normal-look release candidate. Read on to see ten notable fixes in this update.
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Linux Kernel 7.2 RC5 is Released: A Massive Update Hits the Tree
Linus Torvalds released the fifth release candidate (RC5) for Linux Kernel 7.2. Learn what's new in Linux 7.2-rc5.