• Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc2

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Mon Jun 16 06:40:08 2025
    Linus Torvalds has released 6.16-rc2,
    which is "admittedly
    even smaller than usual", though rc2 is not uncommonly one of the smaller release candidates.

    It may be that people are taking a breather after a fairly sizable
    merge window, but it might also be seasonal, with Europe starting to
    see summer vacations... We'll see how this goes.

    The diffstat looks somewhat unusual, with a lot of one-liners with
    both ARC and pincontrol having (presumably independently) ended up
    doing some unrelated trivial cleanups.

    But even that is probably noticeable only because everything else is
    pretty small. That "everything else" is mostly network drivers (and
    bluetooth) and bcachefs, with some rust infrastructure and core
    networking changes thrown in.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1025529/
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