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Linux 7.3-rc6
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Linux 7.3-rc6 [LWN.net]
Nothing looks strange this week - unlike last week's slightly unusual diffstat, we're back to the normal "half the diff is driver fixes" so we're back to normality. The driver side is all over: gpu, networking, usb, tty, iio, sound... A little bit of everything, in other words.
The commit counts are also normal (for the new "AI normal" with a lot of small error path handling fixes etc).
Aside from the driver side, the usual suspects show up: architecture updates (mostly kvm-related again), core networking, some filesystem work (mainly smb client this time), bpf... And a number of new selftests too.
Next week might look a bit different: we've got the annual maintainer summit and the Linux plumbers conference going on , so I'll be on the road, as will a number of other maintainers. That may or may not end up changing the stats for -rc7. But it's unlikely to affect the release schedule, although the fact that I have my yearly family vacation the week after that might make the next merge window a bit wonky. We will see.
In the meantime, please keep testing.
Linus -
Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc6
The 7.3-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing.