Linux kernel 6.0-rc7 released
So I was thinking rc7 might end up larger than usual due to travel hitting rc6, but it doesn't really seem to have happened.
Yeah, maybe it's marginally bigger than the historical average for this time of the release cycle, but it definitely isn't some outlier, and it looks fairly normal. Which is all good, and makes me think that the final release will happen right on schedule next weekend, unless something unexpected happens. Knock wood.
Incidentally, rc7 is also (I think) the first time we have a clean 'make allmodconfig' build with no warnings from clang, since the patches for frame size problems in the amd display code got merged. The stack frame size is still pretty big (and the code isn't exactly pretty), but now it's below the level we warn about.
So that's nice to see.
Anyway, full shortlog below - a lot of it is GPU and network drivers, but there's various random other fixes in there too.
Let's give this one (hopefully) final week of testing, but it all looks pretty good.
Linus
Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-6.0-rc7.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v6.0-rc7/v5.19
You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v6.0-rc7/v6.0-rc6
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the seventh release candidate for Linux kernel 6.0.
