Linux 6.14-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

Two weeks have passed, and the merge window is over.

This is actually a _tiny_ merge window, and that's ok. The holidays
clearly meant that people did less development than during a normal
cycle, and that then shows up as a much smaller-than-average release.
I really felt like this year we got the whole holiday season release
timing right, and this is just another sign of that.

Of course, "tiny" for us still means that there's half a million lines
changed, and more than 10k commits in there - but only barely. In
fact, not counting merges there's only something like 9.3k commits. So
the shortlog is still much too large to post - it's really "tiny" only
when compared to our normal releases.

Aside from the size, the stats otherwise look fairly normal: pretty
much exactly half of the diff is drivers, with the rest being a pretty
normal mix of arch updates, filesystem code, tooling and
documentation. And all the usual changes spread all over.

Let's hope that a small release also ends up meaning smooth sailing
during the stabilization phase. That's obviously guaranteed, but
fingers crossed...

            Linus

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Al Viro (3):
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    hostfs fix
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Alex Williamson (1):
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Andrew Morton (3):
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Anna Schumaker (1):
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Arnd Bergmann (5):
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Bartosz Golaszewski (3):
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Bjorn Andersson (1):
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Bjorn Helgaas (2):
    pci updates
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Borislav Petkov (8):
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Casey Schaufler (1):
    smack update

Christian Brauner (10):
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Corey Minyard (1):
    ipmi updates

Damien Le Moal (1):
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Daniel Thompson (1):
    kgdb updates

Dave Airlie (2):
    drm updates
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Dave Hansen (1):
    x86 TDX updates

Dave Jiang (1):
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David Sterba (1):
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David Teigland (1):
    dlm updates

Dmitry Torokhov (1):
    input updates

Eric Biggers (2):
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Frederic Weisbecker (1):
    kthread updates

Gao Xiang (1):
    erofs updates

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
    m68k updates

Greg KH (6):
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    debugfs fix

Greg Ungerer (1):
    m68knommu update

Guenter Roeck (1):
    hwmon updates

Helge Deller (2):
    fbdev updates
    parisc architecture updates

Herbert Xu (1):
    crypto updates

Huacai Chen (1):
    LoongArch updates

Ilpo Järvinen (1):
    x86 platform driver updates

Ilya Dryomov (1):
    ceph updates

Ingo Molnar (8):
    locking updates
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    performance events updates
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Jaegeuk Kim (1):
    f2fs updates

Jakub Kicinski (1):
    networking fixes

James Bottomley (1):
    SCSI updates

Jan Kara (3):
    inotify update
    isofs update
    fsnotify pre-content notification support

Jarkko Sakkinen (2):
    keys updates
    TPM update

Jason Gunthorpe (2):
    iommufd updates
    rdma updates

Jassi Brar (1):
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Jens Axboe (4):
    block updates
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    more io_uring updates
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Jiri Kosina (1):
    HID updates

Joel Granados (1):
    sysctl table constification

Joerg Roedel (1):
    iommu updates

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (1):
    sh updates

Jonathan Corbet (2):
    Documentation updates
    documentation fixes

Juergen Gross (1):
    xen updates

Kees Cook (6):
    execve updates
    pstore updates
    hardening updates
    AT_EXECVE_CHECK
    hardening fixes
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Kent Overstreet (2):
    bcachefs updates
    bcachefs fixes

Konstantin Komarov (1):
    ntfs3 fixes

Lee Jones (2):
    mfd updates
    LED updates

Len Brown (1):
    turbostat updates

Linus Walleij (1):
    pin control updates

Madhavan Srinivasan (2):
    powerpc updates
    powerpc fixes

Mark Brown (5):
    regmap updates
    regulator updates
    spi updates
    spi fix
    regulator fixes

Masahiro Yamada (1):
    Kbuild updates

Masami Hiramatsu (2):
    probes updates
    bootconfig fix

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
    media updates
    media fix

Max Filippov (1):
    xtensa updates

Michael Tsirkin (1):
    virtio updates

Mickaël Salaün (1):
    landlock updates

Miguel Ojeda (1):
    rust updates

Mike Marshall (1):
    orangefs fix

Miklos Szeredi (1):
    fuse updates

Mikulas Patocka (1):
    device mapper updates

Mimi Zohar (1):
    integrity updates

Miquel Raynal (1):
    MTD updates

Namhyung Kim (2):
    perf-tools updates
    perf tools fixes

Niklas Cassel (1):
    more ata updates

Palmer Dabbelt (1):
    RISC-V updates

Paolo Abeni (1):
    networking updates

Paolo Bonzini (1):
    kvm updates

Paul McKenney (2):
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    stop_machine update

Paul Moore (4):
    lsm updates
    selinux updates
    audit update
    audit fix

Petr Mladek (2):
    printk updates
    livepatching updates

Petr Pavlu (1):
    modules updates

Rafael Wysocki (5):
    power management updates
    ACPI updates
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    ACPI fixes

Richard Weinberger (2):
    UBI and UBIFS updates
    UML updates

Rob Herring (1):
    devicetree updates

Russell King (1):
    ARM updates

Sebastian Reichel (1):
    power supply and reset updates

Serge Hallyn (1):
    capabilities updates

Shuah Khan (3):
    kselftest updates
    kunit updates
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Simona Vetter (1):
    drm fixes

Stafford Horne (1):
    OpenRISC updates

Stephen Boyd (1):
    clk updates

Steve French (3):
    smb server updates
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Steven Rostedt (9):
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    ftrace updates
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    tracing updates
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    trace fing buffer fix
    runtime verifier and osnoise fixes
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Takashi Iwai (2):
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Takashi Sakamoto (1):
    firewire updates

Tejun Heo (1):
    sched_ext updates

Tetsuo Handa (1):
    tomoyo updates

Thomas Bogendoerfer (2):
    MIPS updates
    MIPS fix

Thomas Gleixner (2):
    timer and timekeeping updates
    interrupt subsystem updates

Tzung-Bi Shih (2):
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Uladzislau Rezki (1):
    RCU updates

Ulf Hansson (2):
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Uwe Kleine-König (2):
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Vinod Koul (3):
    dmaengine updates
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Vlastimil Babka (1):
    slab updates

Wei Liu (1):
    hyperv updates

Will Deacon (2):
    arm64 updates
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Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
    watchdog updates

Wolfram Sang (2):
    i2c updates
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Yury Norov (1):
    bitmap updates