Linux kernel 6.2-rc1 released
So it's Christmas Day here, but it's also Sunday afternoon two weeks after the 6.2 merge window opened. So holidays or not, the kernel development show must go on.
Thanks to a lot of people sending their pull requests early, I got much of the merge window work done before the holidays started in earnest, and mostly before my pre-xmas travel. So despite flight delays, missed connections, and the resulting airport hotel excursions, the merge window mostly went smoothly, and there was no reason to delay rc1.
That said, realistically I expect most people to be on vacation for at least another week, so I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a delayed final release due to the season. But it's too early to worry about that yet, we'll just have to see how it goes.
Also, 6.2 looks like it's a bigger release (certainly bigger than 6.1 was). The summary below is, as usual, just my merge log: we've got about 13.5k commits from ~1800 people in total in this merge window, which is actually not that far off the total size of the whole 6.1 release. But let's hope that despite the size, and despite the likely slow start of the post-merge-window calming down period, we'll have a smooth release.
And in the meantime, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all (replace as appropriate with whatever holiday, if any, you are celebrating).
Linus
Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-6.2-rc1.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v6.2-rc1/v6.1
You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v6.2-rc1/v6.1
Change log
Al Viro (5):
elf coredumping updates
alpha updates
iov_iter updates
namespace fix
misc vfs updates
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Alexander Gordeev (1):
s390 updates
Alexandre Belloni (2):
i3c updates
RTC updates
Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
gfs2 updtaes
Andrew Morton (5):
non-MM updates
MM updates
more mm updates
fault-injection updates
hotfixes
Ard Biesheuvel (1):
EFI updates
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
perf tools updates
more perf tools updates
Arnd Bergmann (6):
ARM SoC defconfig updates
ARM SoC code updates
ARM SoC driver updates
ARM SoC DT updates
ARM SoC fixes
asm-generic updates
Bartosz Golaszewski (1):
gpio updates
Benjamin Tissoires (1):
HID updates
Bjorn Andersson (1):
remoteproc updates
Bjorn Helgaas (1):
PCI updates
Borislav Petkov (10):
EDAC updates
x86 RAS updates
x86 alternative update
x86 asm updates
x86 boot updates
x86 cpu updates
x86 microcode and IFS updates
x86 paravirt update
x86 sev updates
x86 core updates
Christian Brauner (7):
VFS acl updates
setgid inheritance updates
vfsuid updates
idmapping updates
simple-xattr updates
vfsuid cleanup
mount propagation fix
Christoph Hellwig (3):
configfs updates
dma-mapping updates
dma-mapping fixes
Chuck Lever (2):
nfsd updates
more nfsd updates
Corey Minyard (1):
IPMI updates
Damien Le Moal (1):
ata updates
Dan Williams (1):
cxl updates
Darrick Wong (3):
vfs remap_range update
iomap update
XFS updates
Dave Airlie (2):
drm updates
drm fixes
Dave Hansen (6):
x86 sgx updates
x86 tdx updates
x86 cache resource control updates
x86 splitlock updates
x86 fpu updates
x86 mm updates
David Howells (1):
afs update
David Kleikamp (1):
jfs updates
David Sterba (1):
btrfs updates
David Teigland (1):
dlm updates
Dennis Zhou (1):
percpu updates
Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input updates
Dominique Martinet (1):
9p updates
Eric Biggers (2):
fscrypt updates
fsverity updates
Gao Xiang (1):
erofs updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates
Greg KH (6):
USB and Thunderbolt driver updates
staging driver updates
tty/serial driver updates
char/misc driver updates
driver core updates
SPDX/License additions
Greg Ungerer (1):
m68knommu update
Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates
Guo Ren (1):
arch/csky updates
Hans de Goede (1):
x86 platform driver updates
Helge Deller (2):
fbdev updates
parisc updates
Herbert Xu (1):
crypto updates
Huacai Chen (1):
LoongArch updates
Ilya Dryomov (1):
cph update
Ingo Molnar (3):
locking updates
perf events updates
scheduler updates
Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates
Jakub Kicinski (1):
networking fixes
James Bottomley (2):
SCSI updates
more SCSI updates
Jan Kara (1):
udf and ext2 fixes
Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
tpm updates
Jason Donenfeld (3):
unsigned-char conversion
random number generator updates
more random number generator updates
Jason Gunthorpe (3):
iommufd implementation
rdma updates
rdma fixes
Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates
Jeff Layton (1):
file locking updates
Jens Axboe (6):
io_uring updates
io_uring updates part two
block updates
writeback updates
io_uring fixes
block fixes
Jiri Kosina (1):
HID updates
Joerg Roedel (1):
iommu updates
John Johansen (1):
apparmor updates
Jonathan Corbet (1):
documentation updates
Juergen Gross (1):
xen updates
Julia Lawall (1):
coccicheck update
Kees Cook (6):
pstore updates
seccomp updates
execve updates
kernel hardening updates
pstore fixes
kernel hardening fixes
Konstantin Komarov (1):
ntfs3 updates
Lee Jones (2):
MFD updates
backlight update
Linus Walleij (1):
pin control updates
Luis Chamberlain (2):
modules updates
sysctl updates
Marc Zyngier (1):
MSI fixes
Mark Brown (5):
regmap updates
regulator updates
spi updates
regulator fixes
spi fix
Masahiro Yamada (1):
Kbuild updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
media updates
media fixes
Max Filippov (1):
Xtensa updates
Michael Ellerman (1):
powerpc updates
Michal Simek (1):
microblaze updates
Mickaël Salaün (1):
landlock updates
Miguel Ojeda (1):
rust updates
Mike Marshall (1):
orangefs updates
Mike Rapoport (1):
memblock updates
Mike Snitzer (1):
device mapper updates
Miklos Szeredi (2):
overlayfs update
fuse update
Mimi Zohar (1):
integrity updates
Miquel Raynal (1):
mtd updates
Namjae Jeon (1):
exfat update
Nick Terrell (1):
zstd updates
Palmer Dabbelt (1):
RISC-V updates
Paolo Abeni (1):
networking updates
Paolo Bonzini (2):
kvm updates
RISC-V kvm updates
Paul McKenney (5):
RCU updates
kernel memory model documentation updates
KCSAN updates
nolibc updates
RCU fix
Paul Moore (3):
audit updates
selinux updates
lsm updates
Pavel Machek (1):
LED updates
Petr Mladek (2):
printk updates
livepatching update
Rafael Wysocki (5):
power management updates
ACPI and PNP updates
thermal control updates
more thermal control updates
more ACPI updates
Rob Herring (2):
devicetree updates
more devicetree updates
Russell King (1):
ARM updates
Sebastian Reichel (2):
power supply and reset updates
HSI updates
Seth Forshee (2):
squashfs update
xattr audit fix
Shuah Khan (2):
Kselftest updates
KUnit updates
Stephen Boyd (1):
clk driver updates
Steve French (3):
ksmbd updates
cifs client updates
cifs fixes
Steven Rostedt (5):
ktest updates
tracing tools updates
tracing updates
trace probes updates
tracing fix
Takashi Iwai (2):
sound updates
more sound updates
Ted Ts'o (1):
ext4 updates
Tejun Heo (1):
cgroup updates
Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates
Thomas Bogendoerfer (2):
MIPS updates
MIPS fixes
Thomas Gleixner (8):
x86 fixes
debugobjects update
irq updates
CPU hotplug updates
x86 apic update
x86 cleanups
timer updates
misc x86 updates
Trond Myklebust (1):
NFS client updates
Tzung-Bi Shih (1):
chrome platform updates
Ulf Hansson (1):
MMC and MEMSTICK updates
Vinod Koul (3):
phy updates
soundwire updates
dmaengine updates
Vlastimil Babka (1):
slab updates
Wei Liu (1):
hyperv updates
Will Deacon (2):
arm64 updates
arm64 fixes
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (1):
i2c updates
On Christmas Day, Linus Torvalds worked hard to complete the first release candidate of the Linux Kernel 6.2, which had more than 13,000 commits from roughly 1,800 contributors overall.
