… That Btrfs fixup worker infrastructure is now restored in time for Linux 7.2-rc7 this weekend and the stable v7.2 kernel later this month. SUSE's David Sterba sent in a pull request today dedicated to bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. …
… The areas they will focus on include Improving KDE Plasma & KDE Linux QA Infrastructure Improving KDE Plasma’s Recoverability Mechanisms Implementing Factory Reset Functionality for KDE Linux Improving Security Infrastructure for Organisational Usage across KDE Plasma Improving Data Backup and Rest… …
… Those wanting to learn more about the CentOS Accelerated Infrastructure SIG can do so via the group's new project page at sigs.centos.org/aie/ . …
… That infrastructure work landed via this commit by Red Hat compiler engineer Jakub Jelinek. …
… Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some netfilter ipset fixes. But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of tiny fixes. …
… Plus various other fixes and smaller improvements to that open-source Rust kernel graphics driver being heavily invested in by NVIDIA. …
… The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable. …
… Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support Linux 7.2-rc7 Restoring Btrfs Fixup Worker Infrastructure To Address Silent Data Loss Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux's Rushed A…
… The only listed change with RC3 are for "critical" bug-fixes in the boot loader / kernel handover code: "Critical bug fixes to the x86 boot loader / kernel handoff which can cause the boot to hang; this seems to happen most often but not exclusively when Intel microcode updates are being loaded." T… …
… In addition to " a bunch of fixes " in general for the Rust Linux kernel code, the Linux 7.3 pull also includes the initial round of fixes for using Rust's GCC "rustc codegen gcc" back-end. …