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Linux 6.3-rc3

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 20, 2023

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Linux 6.3-rc3

=> ↺ Linux 6.3-rc3

So rc3 is fairly big, but that's not hugely usual: it's when a lot of

the fixes tick up as it takes a while before people find and start

reporting issues.

And nothing here looks hugely worrisome. The diffstat looks a bit

unusual in that there are relatively big changes to the scripts and

selftest directories, but that's mainly due to the git-ignore script

removal and some kvm selftest cleanups respectively. Nothing scary.

If you ignore those parts, it's a fairly standard "two thirds drivers,

one third rest" thing. The drivers are all over, but networking, gpu

and sound are the usual big ones, with the fbdev code showing up

mainly just because of a coding style fixup to the logo conversion

scripting (mainly to use proper tab indentation). The qcom

interconnect driver also shows up for major cleanup and fixes.

Outside of those areas, it's a random collection of fixes: the usual

arch updates (much - but not all - of it being kvm), some filesystem

fixes (mainly cifs), core networking, tracing, and some core mm fixes.

Anyway, it's early days still, but nothing here looks particularly odd.

Please test and report any issues you find,

               Linus

Kernel prepatch 6.3-rc3 [LWN.net]

=> ↺ Kernel prepatch 6.3-rc3 [LWN.net]

The 6.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. ""So rc3 is fairly big, but that's not hugely usual: it's when a lot of the fixes tick up as it takes a while before people find and start reporting issues.""

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