On 4/5/26 16:02, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 4/2/26 21:01, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Apr 2026 at 11:27, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> There are always new fixes. Worse case it ends up in 7.0.1. If it >>> causes other regressions, then we end up introducing a new regression >>> in rc7. >> This was a regression in rc1, that was reported several weeks ago. >> Anything that gets reported that early in the release cycle is bound >> to hit lots of people, because the number of people testing early rc >> kernels is relatively small. >> >> So why pointlessly delay *known* regressions for fear of a potential new one? >> >> And why point out rc7, when dammit, this could have been fixed long >> before and *not* be that late in the release? [...] > > Thx for jumping in there. While at it: I see situations like this all > the time (I'll reply to this mail with a few current examples), [...] FWIW, here are a few examples from the report I sent earlier this week (a fix for one regression mentioned there hit your tree yesterday; a fix for another is in a PR Greg sent today). All of the following had fixes on the list or even in -next a week ago for -rc6:
################################################################## Regressions introduced in -rc1 stage and known for two weeks or more ------------------------------------------------------------------ ARM: dts: imx: Colibri iMX6ULL and Colibri iMX7 no longer boot https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ known for 6 weeks, caused by 8124b4a4a96b (v7.0-rc1) Fix is bccaf98c1077f2 ("Revert "ARM: dts: imx: move nand related property under nand@0"") [next-20260318 (pending-fixes)] aka https:// lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ PCI: problems with Nvidia P40 24GB or eGPU's https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221205 https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ known for 22 days, caused by 3958bf16e2fe (v7.0-rc1 as well as v6.19.4, v6.18.14) Fix is 9036bd0efcb616 ("PCI: Align head space better") [next-20260331, afaics targeted for 7.1], which is 09/10 of a series: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ drm/msm/dpu: pink noise on the screen https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ known for 19 days, caused by 2892de3f4f98 (v7.0-rc1) Fix is b9699dd862760e ("drm/msm/dpu: don't try using 2 LMs if only one DSC is available") [next-20260325] aka https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260317-fix-3d-dsc- [email protected]/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ceph: writeback can lead to a panic https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ known for 16 days, caused by cac190c7674f (v7.0-rc1) Fix is 681a6d350eff10 ("ceph: fix num_ops off-by-one when crypto allocation fails") [next-20260320, might target 7.1] aka https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ ################################################################## Regressions introduced post-rc1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ HID: core: GPD Win5 handhelds stopped working https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221271 Known for 13 days, caused by 0a3fe972a7cb (v7.0-rc5) Fix is 9e2a17d2e8088f ("HID: gpd: fix report descriptor on GPD Win handheld (2f24:0137)") [next-20260403] aka https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ ################################################################## Bonus: I'm not on-top of regressions from earlier cycles (sorry!), but I know there are at least two that have fixes available for at least a week, too: ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2c10400e4a2332 ("media: ipu-bridge: Add upside-down sensor DMI quirk for Dell XPS 13 9340 and XPS 14 9440") [next-20260311] aka https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ It looks like this is heading towards 7.1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ wifi: ath12k: prepare REO update element only for primary link -- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260210-ath12k-rxtid-double-free-v1-1-8b523fb28...@oss.qualcomm.com/ -- sitting on the list since 2026-02-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------
