Megjelent a 6.11-es Linux kernel hetedik (és várhatóan egyben utolsó) prepatche. Ha minden jól megy, jövő vasárnap kiadásra kerül a végleges 6.11-es kernel:
List: linux-kernel
Subject: Linux 6.11-rc7
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: 2024-09-08 22:04:56
So I'm back in my regular timezone, and rc7 is done the usual Sunday
afternoon time.
And I wish I could say that things have calmed down, but I can't
really say that. In fact, rc7 is slightly bigger than both rc6 and rc5
were, both in number of commits, and in actual diff size. That's not
really how it should work out.
That said, there's nothing *scary* in here. I got quite a lot of pull
requests with one or two trivial fixes the last week, and that tends
to be a good sign. The fixes are also spread out fairly widely, so
it's not like there's some problem spot. It's just that there's still
a fair number of patches in here.
And while it hasn't quite calmed down as I would have preferred, it's
also not in any way hugely large or out of line. So I don't think
there's any real reason to actually delay 6.11 unless something odd
comes up.
Of course, if I release 6.11 according to the normal schedule next
weekend, that means that the merge window will open while I (and many
other core maintainers) are traveling for the yearly kernel maintainer
summit. That in itself might be a reason to delay, although not a
particularly strong one. All the actual work should be done before the
merge window, and while tend to try to avoid doing the merge window on
the road with a laptop, it's not usually actually all that
problematic.
So we'll see. I'm still waffling about it.
In the meantime, please do give this rc7 a good shakedown, ok?
Linus