Linux 7.2-rc2

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 06, 2026

• LWN ☛ Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc2

  The 7.2-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: ""It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly smaller than rc2 was in 7.1. Let's see how that all continues, but so far so good.""

• Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux 7.2-rc2

  It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's
  not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly
  smaller than rc2 was in 7.1. Let's see how that all continues, but so
  far so good.
  
  
  The diffstat looks normal too, with about half the patch being drivers
  - the usual suspects accounting for the bulk of it. The rest being
  spread all over (but mostly filesystems and networking).
  
  
  The only slightly unusual thing is the header file split where
  mod_devicetable.h was split into multiple smaller per-subsystem
  device-id headers, which is how it should always have been done, but
  wasn't. It's a cleanup, but it also means that we have one fewer of
  those monster headers that causes almost everything to be recompiled
  if you touch it - even when the changes are relevant only to a few
  small files.
  
  
  Anyway, that shows up in the diffstat, but is hopefully not really
  visible any other way as all the users hopefully got updates properly.
  Knock wood.
  
  
  Shortlog appended for your pleasure - easy enough to scrool through to
  get a quick feel for the kinds of things that have been going on.
  Nothing really stands out..
  
  
                     Linus