Re: Linux 7.1-rc1

[Luna Jernberg]

Had problems with the backlight on my Dell Latitude 7390 with this
kernel, so had to install 7.0.2 instead

Den sön 26 apr. 2026 kl 23:53 skrev Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> So it's early Sunday afternoon, two weeks have passed, and so I've
> tagged and pushed out the 7.1-rc1 release and the merge window is
> closed.
>
> Things look fairly normal, although we do have a few different
> projects to cull some old hardware support to help minimize
> maintenance burden: phasing out i486 support (configs deleted, code
> deletions to follow) and independently starting to remove some really
> old networking hardware support, and removing some SoC support that
> never went anywhere.
>
> But we're more than making up for any stale code removal with all the
> new features and code added, so the diffstat still shows many more
> lines added than removed.
>
> As always for the merge window, the diffstat and shortlog are much too
> big to quote here. The merge window looks fairly normal stat-wise,
> possibly slightly on the bigger side: we've got about 13k non-merge
> commits, with an additional thousand merge commits. So appended below
> is just the top-level view of the merges I've done.
>
> The changes are all over, although the diff looks a bit lopsided due
> to another bulk AMD GPU register header sync. That register definition
> sync is about 25% of the total patch, but if you ignore that bulk
> change everything else looks pretty normal - half the updates are to
> drivers,  with the rest being spread out over arch updates,
> filesystem, networking and core kernel updates. With a healthy
> smattering of documentation, tooling and selftest updates.
>
> Let's start testing and calming this thing down,
>
>               Linus
>
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