Two weeks have passed, -rc1 is out there, and the merge window is thus over.
I don't want to jinx anything, but things certainly look a lot better
than with 4.15. We have no (known) nasty surprises pending, and there
were no huge issues during the merge window. Fingers crossed that this
stays fairly calm and sane.
As usual, I'm only appending my mergelog, because while this is not
shaping up to be a particularly huge release, none of our recent
releases have been small enough to describe with the shortlogs I use
for later rc's.
The actual diff is dominated by drivers, and once again the GPU
patches stand out - this time some AMD GPU header files. Happily, this
time the bulk of those lines is actually *removal* due to cleanups and
getting rid of some unused headers.
But there really is changes all over. Drivers may be the bulk (GPU,
networking, staging, media, sound, infiniband, scsi and misc smaller
subsystems), but we have a fair amount of arch updates (spectre and
meltdown fixes for non-x86 architectures, but also some further x86
work, and just general arch updates). And there's networking,
filesystem updates, documentation, tooling..
There's a little bit for everybody, in other words.
Go out and test,
Linus
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Al Viro (10):
poll annotations
mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups
kern_recvmsg reduction
misc vfs updates
get_user_pages_fast updates
dcache updates
asm/uaccess.h whack-a-mole
vmci iov_iter updates
misc vfs fixes
more poll annotation updates
Alex Williamson (1):
VFIO updates
Alexandre Belloni (1):
RTC updates
Andrew Morton (2):
updates
misc updates
Andrey Ryabinin (1):
KASAN word-at-a-time fixups
Andy Shevchenko (1):
more x86 platform-drivers updates
Arnd Bergmann (3):
ARM SoC device tree updates
ARM SoC platform updates
ARM SoC driver updates
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (2):
fbdev updates
fbdev fix
Benson Leung (1):
chrome platform updates
Bjorn Andersson (2):
rpmsg updates
remoteproc updates
Bjorn Helgaas (2):
PCI updates
PCI fix
Bob Peterson (2):
GFS2 updates
GFS2 fixes
Boris Brezillon (1):
MTD updates
Borislav Petkov (1):
EDAC updates
Bruce Fields (1):
nfsd update
Catalin Marinas (2):
arm64 updates
more arm64 updates
Christoph Hellwig (1):
dma mapping updates
Corey Minyard (1):
IPMI updates
Darren Hart (2):
x86 platform-driver updates
x86 platform driver updates
Darrick Wong (2):
xfs updates
more xfs updates
Dave Airlie (2):
drm updates
more drm updates
David Howells (2):
init_task initializer cleanups
afs updates
David Miller (6):
networking updates
sparc updates
small IDE cleanup
networking fixes
networking fixes
networking fixes
David Sterba (1):
btrfs updates
Dmitry Torokhov (1):
input layer updates
Dominik Brodowski (1):
pcmcia updates
Doug Ledford (1):
more rdma updates
Eric Biederman (2):
siginfo cleanups
userns updates
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
m68k updates
Greg KH (5):
USB/PHY updates
tty/staging driver updates
staging/IIO updates
driver core updates
char/misc driver updates
Guenter Roeck (1):
hwmon updates
Heiko Carstens (1):
s390 updates
Herbert Xu (1):
crypto updates
Ilya Dryomov (1):
ceph updates
Ingo Molnar (13):
STRICT_DEVMEM default
RCU updates
EFI updates
locking updates
perf updates
x86 RAS updates
scheduler updates
x86 apic cleanup
x86 cleanups
x86 hyperv update
locking fixlets
perf fixes
scheduler updates
Jacek Anaszewski (1):
LED updates
Jaegeuk Kim (1):
f2fs updates
James Bottomley (2):
SCSI updates
second set of SCSI updates
James Hogan (2):
MIPS updates
MIPS fixes
James Morris (5):
integrity updates
smack updates
tpm updates
seccomp updates
integrity fixes
Jan Kara (1):
UDF and ext2 fixlets
Jason Gunthorpe (1):
RDMA subsystem updates
Jassi Brar (1):
mailbox updates
Jean Delvare (1):
dmi subsystem updates/fixes
Jeff Layton (2):
inode->i_version rework
inode->i_version cleanup
Jens Axboe (3):
block updates
more block updates
block fixes
Jesper Nilsson (1):
CRIS updates and fixes
Jessica Yu (1):
modules updates
Jiri Kosina (2):
HID updates
livepatching updates
Joerg Roedel (1):
IOMMU updates
Jon Mason (1):
NTB updates
Jonathan Corbet (2):
documentation updates
more documentation updates
Juergen Gross (1):
xen fixes
Kees Cook (3):
pstore update
hardened usercopy whitelisting
gcc plugins updates
Lee Jones (2):
MFD updates
backlight updates
Ley Foon Tan (1):
nios2 update
Linus Walleij (2):
GPIO updates
pin control updates
Mark Brown (5):
spi updates
regulator updates
regmap updates
more ASoC updates
regulator fix
Martin Schwidefsky (1):
s390 updates
Masahiro Yamada (4):
Kbuild updates
Kbuild misc updates
Kconfig updates
more Kbuild updates
Matt Turner (1):
alpha updates
Matthew Wilcox (1):
idr updates
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
media updates
Max Filippov (2):
Xtensa updates
xtense fix
Michael Ellerman (1):
powerpc updates
Michael Tsirkin (1):
virtio/vhost updates
Michal Simek (1):
microblaze updates
Mike Marshall (1):
orangefs updates
Mike Snitzer (1):
device mapper updates
Miklos Szeredi (1):
overlayfs updates
Nicholas Bellinger (1):
SCSI target updates
Palmer Dabbelt (1):
RISC-V updates
Paul Moore (1):
selinux updates
Petr Mladek (1):
printk updates
Radim Krčmář (1):
KVM updates
Rafael Wysocki (5):
power management updates
ACPI updates
PNP updates
more power management updates
more ACPI updates
Richard Weinberger (1):
UBI/UBIFS updates
Rob Herring (1):
DeviceTree updates
Ross Zwisler (1):
libnvdimm updates
Russell King (1):
ARM updates
Sebastian Reichel (2):
HSI update
power supply and reset updates
Shaohua Li (1):
MD updates
Shuah Khan (1):
kselftest updates
Stefan Richter (1):
firewire updates
Stephen Boyd (1):
clk updates
Steve French (2):
cifs updates
cifs fixes
Steven Rostedt (2):
tracing updates
tracing fixes
Takashi Iwai (1):
sound updates
Ted Ts'o (2):
ext4 updates
fscrypt updates
Tejun Heo (4):
workqueue updates
libata updates
percpu update
cgroup updates
Thierry Reding (1):
pwm updates
Thomas Gleixner (10):
irq updates
timer updates
x86/cache updates
x86 platform updates
x86 timer updates
x86 mm update
x86/pti updates
irq fixes
x86 fixes
spectre/meltdown updates
Trond Myklebust (2):
NFS client updates
more NFS client updates
Ulf Hansson (2):
MMC updates
MMC host fixes
Vinod Koul (1):
dmaengine updates
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
watchdog updates
Wolfram Sang (1):
i2c updates
Zhang Rui (1):
thermal management updates
