• [$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed Feb 25 06:40:08 2026


    The 7.0 merge window

    closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total,
    3,893 of which came in after
    the article covering the first half of the merge
    window. The changes in the second half were weighted toward bug fixes over
    new features, which is usual. There were still a handful of surprises, however, including
    89 separate tiny code-cleanup changes from different people for the rtl8723bs driver, a number that
    surprised
    Greg Kroah-Hartman. It's unusual for a WiFi-chip driver to receive that much attention, especially a staging driver that is not yet ready for general use.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1058664/
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