Re: Linus 7.4-rc1

[Luna Jernberg]

Den tis 3 nov. 2026 kl 20:30 skrev Luna Jernberg <droidbittin@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> 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):
> > >     i2c updates
> > >     more i2c updates
> > >
> > > Andreas Gruenbacher (1):
> > >     gfs2 updates
> > >
> > > Andrew Morton (3):
> > >     MM updates
> > >     non-MM updates
> > >     more MM updates
> > >
> > > Andy Shevchenko (1):
> > >     auxdisplay updates
> > >
> > > Anna Schumaker (1):
> > >     nfs client updates
> > >
> > > Ard Biesheuvel (1):
> > >     EFI updates
> > >
> > > Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
> > >     perf tool updates
> > >
> > > Arnd Bergmann (4):
> > >     SoC devicetree updates
> > >     SoC driver updates
> > >     SoC defconfig updates
> > >     ARM SoC board file updates
> > >
> > > Bartosz Golaszewski (3):
> > >     power sequencing updates
> > >     gpio updates
> > >     gpio fixes
> > >
> > > Bjorn Andersson (2):
> > >     remoteproc updates
> > >     rpmsg updates
> > >
> > > Bjorn Helgaas (1):
> > >     PCI updates
> > >
> > > Borislav Petkov (10):
> > >     EDAC updates
> > >     x86 asm update
> > >     x86 CPU speculation updates
> > >     x86 resource control updates
> > >     x86 cleanups
> > >     x86 cpu feature updates
> > >     x86 FPU state updates
> > >     x86 platform updates
> > >     x86 SEV updates
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> > >     xfs updates
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> > >     arm64 fixes
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> > > Christian Brauner (21):
> > >     ipc fix
> > >     namespace updates
> > >     signal handling updates
> > >     bfs removal
> > >     buffer_head updates
> > >     binfmt updates
> > >     close_range updates
> > >     coredump updates
> > >     file table updates
> > >     vfs idmap constification
> > >     iomap updates
> > >     kernfs updates
> > >     path lookup updates
> > >     misc vfs updates
> > >     mount updates
> > >     netfs updates
> > >     pidfd updates
> > >     superblock updates
> > >     file closing updates
> > >     vfs keyring updates
> > >     vfs fixes
> > >
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> > > Daniel Thompson (1):
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> > > Danilo Krummrich (3):
> > >     driver core updates
> > >     driver core fixes
> > >     more driver core fixes
> > >
> > > Dave Airlie (2):
> > >     drm updates
> > >     drm fixes
> > >
> > > Dave Hansen (4):
> > >     x86 kdump update
> > >     x86 microcode loader update
> > >     x86 mm updates
> > >     x86 TDX updates
> > >
> > > Dave Jiang (1):
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> > >     core memory management updates
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> > > David Sterba (3):
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> > >     affs updates
> > >     more btrfs updates
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> > >     NIOS2 update
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> > >     staging driver updates
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> > > Helge Deller (3):
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> > > Herbert Xu (1):
> > >     crypto updates
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> > >     LoongArch updates
> > >
> > > Ilpo Järvinen (1):
> > >     x86 platform driver updates
> > >
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> > >     ceph updates
> > >
> > > Ingo Molnar (12):
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> > >     locking updates
> > >     objtool updates
> > >     perf events updates
> > >     kexec / irq fix
> > >     perf events fixes
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> > >     timer fixes
> > >     x86 fix
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> > >
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> > >     f2fs updates
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> > > Jakub Kicinski (1):
> > >     networking fixes
> > >
> > > James Bottomley (2):
> > >     SCSI updates
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> > >
> > > Jan Kara (2):
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> > >     TSM update
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> > >     mailbox updates
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> > >     io_uring updates
> > >     block updates
> > >     io_uring dma-buf support
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> > >     more block updates
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> > >     HID updates
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> > >     sysctl updates
> > >
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> > >     IOMMU updates
> > >
> > > Johannes Berg (1):
> > >     UML updates
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> > >     AppArmor fixes
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> > >     sh updates
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> > > Jonathan Corbet (2):
> > >     documentation updates
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> > >     xen updates
> > >
> > > Kees Cook (3):
> > >     pstore updates
> > >     seccomp updates
> > >     hardening updates
> > >
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> > >     ntfs3 updates
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> > > Lee Jones (3):
> > >     MFD updates
> > >     LED updates
> > >     backlight updates
> > >
> > > Len Brown (1):
> > >     x86 power utilities updates
> > >
> > > Linus Walleij (1):
> > >     pin control updates
> > >
> > > Madhavan Srinivasan (1):
> > >     powerpc updates
> > >
> > > Magnus Lindholm (1):
> > >     alpha updates
> > >
> > > Marco Elver (1):
> > >     KCSAN updates
> > >
> > > Marek Szyprowski (1):
> > >     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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> > >     xtensa updates
> > >
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> > >     vhost,virtio updates
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> > > Mickaël Salaün (1):
> > >     Landlock update
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> > > Miguel Ojeda (2):
> > >     Rust updates
> > >     Rust fixes
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> > >     orangefs updates
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> > >     kexec updates
> > >     liveupdate updates
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> > >     fuse updates
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> > >     device mapper updates
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> > >     MTD updates
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> > >     Kbuild / Kconfig updates
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> > >     CSD lock updates
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> > >     audit updates
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> > >     RISC-V updates
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> > >     power management updates
> > >     thermal control updates
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> > >     power management fixes
> > >     thermal control fixes
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> > >     ARM updates
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> > >     power supply and reset updates
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> > >     kselftest updates
> > >     kunit update
> > >
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> > >     runtime verifier updates
> > >     RTLA tooling updates
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> > >     ring-buffer updates
> > >     tracing updates
> > >     ktest updates
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> > >     sound fixes
> > >
> > > Takashi Sakamoto (1):
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> > >
> > > Ted Ts'o (1):
> > >     ext4 updates
> > >
> > > Tejun Heo (5):
> > >     workqueue updates
> > >     cgroup updates
> > >     sched_ext updates
> > >     cgroup fixes
> > >     sched_ext fixes
> > >
> > > Thomas Bogendoerfer (1):
> > >     MIPS updates
> > >
> > > Thomas Gleixner (6):
> > >     irq updates
> > >     irq chip driver updates
> > >     clocksource updates
> > >     timer core updates
> > >     NOHZ updates
> > >     VDSO updates
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> > > Thomas Weißschuh (1):
> > >     nolibc updates
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> > >     chrome platform updates
> > >     chrome platform firmware loader updates
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> > >     nilfs2 updates
> > >     hfs/hfsplus updates
> > >
> > > Vinod Koul (3):
> > >     soundwire updates
> > >     phy updates
> > >     dmaengine updates
> > >
> > > Wei Liu (1):
> > >     hyperv updates
> > >
> > > Yury Norov (1):
> > >     bitmap updates
> > >
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