Linus kiadta a 6.17-es kernel második prepatchét tesztelésre. Levelében arról elmélkedett, hogy milyen csendes volt az elmúlt hét. Nem tudja: Vajon azért kicsi az -rc2, mert nem volt semmi probléma a merge window-val, vagy mert ez a merge window nem annyira jó, de még mindig jobb, mint a legtöbb? Vagy azért, mert Európa még nyaral? Mindegy is, reméli, hogy ez a hét ugyanolyan csendes lesz, mint az előző ...
| From |
Linus Torvalds <> |
| Date |
Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:01:00 -0700 |
| Subject |
Linux 6.17-rc2 |
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So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2
releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've
been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it
just means that next week will see more noise. And I'll be traveling
again later in the week.
But hey, let's not be pessimistic. Maybe rc2 is small because this
merge window just didn't have any real issues? Because that's bound to
happen _eventually_, right? One day we're bound to hit that mythical
merge window that doesn't introduce any bugs at all.
This merge window wasn't _that_ good, but maybe it was simply better than most?
Or maybe it's that much of Europe is still on vacation because it's August?
Anyway, most of the fixes in rc2 were to drivers - particularly block
(although the biggest chunk of that was simply a removal of the drbd
page pool code). The rest is mostly gpu, networking driver, and sound
fixes. Some SCSI and firewire fixes too.
Outside of drivers, it's filesystems (smb, xfs, erofs, btrfs), core
networking (including some new selftests), and some architecture fixes
(mainly x86).
Other than that, minor random fixes. Shortlog appended.
Let's hope next week ends up as quiet. Wouldn't that be nice?
Linus