Kernel prepatch 4.6-rc3
Kernel prepatch 4.6-rc3
The 4.6-rc3 kernel prepatch has been released, but there does not appear to be an announcement from Linus to go with it. As he predicted, the pace of change has increased a bit; 298 changesets have been merged since -rc2, out of 491 total since the closing of the merge window.
Update: your editor has found the
missing 4.6-rc3 announcement. It seems it went to the filesystems list
only; Linus apparently had filesystems on his mind. "What _is_ surprising, though, is that about half the bulk of the rc3
patch is to filesystem code. I don't recall that before, and that
surprised me - I had to go look for the reason. It turns out that
while we have indeed got changes to several filesystems (btrfs, ext4,
orangefs, f2fs), but the big reason was simply from us getting rid of
the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE macro and just using PAGE_SIZE everywhere.
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