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Linux 7.3-rc5
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Linux 7.3-rc5
Another week, another large rc.
The diffstat looks a bit unusual. Less than a third of the patch is drivers, and a quarter is just selftests. Now, that's admittedly a bit misleading: most of the driver patches are rather small, and some of the selftest patches are much bigger (the biggest patch in here is the arm64 kvm ITS table test, I think). So counting the number of commits it skews quite differently. But that diffstat is still a bit unusual.
Not *bad* unusual, just not what I typically see.
The rest is mostly architecture fixes (largely kvm-related, some perf) and a fair amount of core kernel (both scheduler and bpf). And networking, of course. Most of the driver side is networking too (with drm showing up as a close second). That part is decidedly _not_ unusual.
There's various other scattered fixes in here too - core vfs, some xfs. I don't think there's any real pattern to it other than "big". But nothing looks particularly alarming, I think that despite the difftstat it's just the same old, same old.
Please keep testing,
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Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc5
The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: ""I don't think there's any real pattern to it other than 'big'. But nothing looks particularly alarming, I think that despite the diffstat it's just the same old, same old.""
Neowin:
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Linus Torvalds ships Linux 7.3-rc5
Linus Torvalds notes that less than a third of the patch is drivers while a full quarter consists of selftests, led by an arm64 KVM ITS table test.