Linux kernel 6.1-rc5 released
Another week, another rc.
Did things calm down and shrink this week? No. We've got about as many commits in rc5 as we had in rc4. It's not outrageously big, but it's certainly on the bigger side for this timeframe.
Am I getting worried? Not yet. There's nothing particularly worrisome in here, and the rc5 changes are just a little bit of everything, so I'm hoping it's just that it's one of those timing things and all the pull requests came in this week, and it's going to calm down now.
But we'll see. If things don't start calming down, this may be one of those releases that need an extra week. It wasn't a particularly big merge window, but I don't particularly like how the rc's keep being on the bigger side.
Anyway, lots of small fixes, fairly spread out (the diffstat looks fairly flat apart from some maple tree tests moving to the testing subdirectory). Nothing really stands out, the stats all look normal apart from the "just slightly more than usual". Drivers, networking, architecture fixes, with some smattering of noise elsewhere.
Linus
Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-6.1-rc5.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v6.1-rc5/v6.0
You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v6.1-rc5/v6.1-rc4
Linus Torvalds has announced the fifth release candidate for Linux kernel 6.1 for testing.
