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Linux kernel 5.16-rc3 has been released.



Linux kernel 5.16-rc3 released

So rc3 is usually a bit larger than rc2 just because people had some time to start finding things.

So too this time, although it's not like this is a particularly big rc3. Possibly partly due to the past week having been Thanksgiving week here in the US. But the size is well within the normal range, so if that's a factor, it's not been a big one.

The diff for rc3 is mostly drivers, although part of that is just because of the removal of a left-over MIPS Netlogic driver which makes the stats look a bit wonky, and is over a third of the whole diff just in itself.

If you ignore that part, the statistics look a bit more normal, but drivers still dominate (network drivers, sound and gpu are the big ones, but there is noise all over). Other than that there's once again a fair amount of selftest (mostly networking), along with core networking, some arch updates - the bulk of it from a single arm64 uaccess patch, although that's mostly because it's all pretty small - and random other changes.

Full shortlog below.

Please test,

Linus

Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.16-rc3.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v5.16-rc3/v5.15

You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v5.16-rc3/v5.16-rc2