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Linux 6.17-rc2
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Linux 6.17-rc2
So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it just means that next week will see more noise. And I'll be traveling again later in the week.
But hey, let's not be pessimistic. Maybe rc2 is small because this merge window just didn't have any real issues? Because that's bound to happen _eventually_, right? One day we're bound to hit that mythical merge window that doesn't introduce any bugs at all.
This merge window wasn't _that_ good, but maybe it was simply better than most?
Or maybe it's that much of Europe is still on vacation because it's August?
Anyway, most of the fixes in rc2 were to drivers - particularly block (although the biggest chunk of that was simply a removal of the drbd page pool code). The rest is mostly gpu, networking driver, and sound fixes. Some SCSI and firewire fixes too.
Outside of drivers, it's filesystems (smb, xfs, erofs, btrfs), core networking (including some new selftests), and some architecture fixes (mainly x86).
Other than that, minor random fixes. Shortlog appended.
Let's hope next week ends up as quiet. Wouldn't that be nice?
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Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc2
The second 6.17 kernel prepatch is out for testing. ""So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it just means that next week will see more noise.""