Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Quoth Linus:

I’m not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial
stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary,
but at the same time I’m really not convinced the churn is worth it
at rc5 time. These things are “fixes”, sure, but at the same time a
lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they’d be better
off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window. … ⌘ Read more