Re: Linus 7.4-rc1

[Luna Jernberg]

Cool thanks for the info and the packages

Den mån 2 nov. 2026 kl 19:46 skrev Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 02:08:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > That said, a small part of the "this is a big merge window" may also
> > be that people are expecting 7.4 to be the next LTS release, which is
> > another independent reason why some releases tend larger than others.
> > So it may not *just* be the flood of AI patches.
>
> To be clear, I had assumed that 7.4 would be released the first week of
> January if we had had a 3 week -rc1 cycle, so am planning on 7.3 to be
> the next LTS kernel, which would have put the 7.4.0 release on the 27th
> if everything had gone "well".
>
> But now the scripts say:
>         current status: 7.4-rc1
>         ---
>         7.4 window open : 2026-10-19
>         7.4 window close: 2026-11-01
>         7.4 rc1         : 2026-11-01  <-- you are here
>         7.4 final       : 2026-12-20
>         ---
>
> That being said, if people are trying to "force" stuff into 7.4 that's
> the best possible reason to NOT have it be the next LTS release as we
> have had this happen in the past and suffered greatly for it.
>
> So let's just count on 7.3.y to be the next LTS unless something really
> crazy comes up with it that would prevent that from happening.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
>
>
> >
> > Whatever the reason(s) for a big release, it's huge both in commits -
> > almost 20k commits vs the more common ~15k - and as a diff. Although
> > the diff is large partly for the other traditional reason: yet another
> > AMD hardware register dump into huge headers. A full third of the
> > patch is just AMD GPU register offsets and bit masks. We've been here
> > before, and I'm sure we'll see it many times again in the future. Just
> > ignore the noise.
> >
> > And if you *do* ignore that noise, it all looks fairly normal. Large,
> > and full of fixes for issues found by AI (and more and more the
> > patches have been suggested by AI too, although they often get
> > rewritten). But not otherwise looking very strange. About half drivers
> > (again, ignoring the AMD GPU headers - if you don't, it's more like
> > 2/3rds drivers), with the rest being spread all over, and in the usual
> > places. Architecrture updates, filesystems (both core vfs layer and
> > individual low-level filesystems), tooling (mainly perf, and also a
> > lot of selftest updates). and core kernel (networking, rust, bpf, mm:
> > a little bit of everything).
> >
> > And even more than usual, you don't want to see the shortlog. Being a
> > large merge window means that just the "shortlog" is 24k lines and
> > 1.2MB total. So below is my usual merge summary, which will act as a
> > kind of high-level overview of the areas that have changed. You'll
> > need to get the git tree for full details (or more likely, to then
> > look at the particular areas you are interested in).
> >
> >                   Linus
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Alex Williamson (1):
> >     VFIO updates
> >
> > Alexandre Belloni (2):
> >     I3C updates
> >     RTC updates
> >
> > Alexei Starovoitov (2):
> >     bpf updates
> >     bpf fixes
> >
> > Alison Schofield (1):
> >     NVDIMM and DAX updates
> >
> > Amir Goldstein (1):
> >     overlayfs fixes
> >
> > Andi Shyti (2):
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> >
> > Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
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> >     non-MM updates
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> >     auxdisplay updates
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> >     nfs client updates
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> > Ard Biesheuvel (1):
> >     EFI updates
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> > Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
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> >
> > Arnd Bergmann (4):
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> >     SoC driver updates
> >     SoC defconfig updates
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> >     x86 cleanups
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> >     NIOS2 update
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> >
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> >     kthread fix
> >
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> >
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> >     objtool updates
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> >     kexec / irq fix
> >     perf events fixes
> >     scheduler fixes
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> >     x86 fix
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> >     MFD updates
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> >     x86 power utilities updates
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> >     pin control updates
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> >     powerpc updates
> >
> > Magnus Lindholm (1):
> >     alpha updates
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> >     KCSAN updates
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> >     dma-mapping updates
> >
> > Mark Brown (6):
> >     regulator updates
> >     spi updates
> >     regmap updates
> >     regmap fix
> >     regulator fix
> >     spi fixes
> >
> > Masami Hiramatsu (3):
> >     probes updates
> >     bootconfig updates
> >     bootconfig fix
> >
> > Matt Turner (1):
> >     alpha floating point emulation fix
> >
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
> >     media updates
> >     media update
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> > Max Filippov (1):
> >     xtensa updates
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> >     vhost,virtio updates
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> > Michal Simek (1):
> >     arch/microblaze updates
> >
> > Mickaël Salaün (1):
> >     Landlock update
> >
> > Miguel Ojeda (2):
> >     Rust updates
> >     Rust fixes
> >
> > Mike Marshall (1):
> >     orangefs updates
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> > Mike Rapoport (3):
> >     memblock updates
> >     kexec updates
> >     liveupdate updates
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> > Miklos Szeredi (1):
> >     fuse updates
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> > Mikulas Patocka (1):
> >     device mapper updates
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> >     IMA updates
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> >     MTD updates
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> > Namjae Jeon (4):
> >     smb server updates
> >     exfat updates
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> >     Kbuild / Kconfig updates
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> >     ata updates
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> > Paolo Abeni (1):
> >     networking updates
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> >     KVM updates
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> >     module updates
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> >     ARM updates
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> >     power supply and reset updates
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> >     ring-buffer updates
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> >     ext4 updates
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> > Tejun Heo (5):
> >     workqueue updates
> >     cgroup updates
> >     sched_ext updates
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> >
> > Thomas Bogendoerfer (1):
> >     MIPS updates
> >
> > Thomas Gleixner (6):
> >     irq updates
> >     irq chip driver updates
> >     clocksource updates
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> >     bitmap updates
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