Well, thanks a bunch Linus :) On 16:10 Sun 07 Jul , Linus Torvalds wrote: >So I was somewhat pre-disposed towards making an rc8, simply because >of my travels and being entirely off the internet for a few days last >week, and with spotty internet for a few days before that [*]. > >But there really doesn't seem to be any reason for another rc, since >it's been very quiet. Yes, I had a few pull requests since rc7, but >they were all small, and I had many more that are for the upcoming >merge window. Part of it may be due to the July 4th week, of course, >but whatever - I'll take the quiet week as a good sign. > >So despite a fairly late core revert, I don't see any real reason for >another week of rc, and so we have a v5.2 with the normal release >timing. > >There's no particular area that stands out there - the changes are so >small that the sppended shortlog really is the best description of >last week. A few small random changes all over: drivers, >architectures, filesystem, mm, ... > >So with this, the merge window for 5.2 is open. > > Linus > >[*] Courtesy of the Ocean Hunter III in Palau. > >Because of blurry fish-butt, I don't carry a camera under water any >more, but I guess can point you to some of Dirk's highlights: > > https://hohndel.name/palau-2019 > >--- > >Alex Deucher (1): > drm/amdgpu/gfx9: use reset default for PA_SC_FIFO_SIZE > >Ard Biesheuvel (1): > arm64: kaslr: keep modules inside module region when KASAN is enabled > >Arnd Bergmann (2): > soc: ti: fix irq-ti-sci link error > devres: allow const resource arguments > >Bartosz Golaszewski (3): > ARM: davinci: da830-evm: add missing regulator constraints for OHCI > ARM: davinci: omapl138-hawk: add missing regulator constraints for OHCI > ARM: davinci: da830-evm: fix GPIO lookup for OHCI > >Boris Brezillon (1): > drm/panfrost: Fix a double-free error > >Cedric Hombourger (1): > MIPS: have "plain" make calls build dtbs for selected platforms > >Chris Wilson (1): > drm/i915/ringbuffer: EMIT_INVALIDATE *before* switch context > >Christian Brauner (1): > fork: return proper negative error code > >Chuck Lever (1): > svcrdma: Ignore source port when computing DRC hash > >Colin Ian King (2): > ALSA: usb-audio: fix sign unintended sign extension on left shifts > ALSA: seq: fix incorrect order of dest_client/dest_ports arguments > >Dan Carpenter (1): > dmaengine: jz4780: Fix an endian bug in IRQ handler > >Dennis Wassenberg (1): > ALSA: hda/realtek - Change front mic location for Lenovo M710q > >Dmitry Korotin (1): > MIPS: Add missing EHB in mtc0 -> mfc0 sequence. > >Dmitry Osipenko (1): > i2c: tegra: Add Dmitry as a reviewer > >Eiichi Tsukata (1): > tracing/snapshot: Resize spare buffer if size changed > >Eric Biggers (3): > vfs: move_mount: reject moving kernel internal mounts > crypto: user - prevent operating on larval algorithms > fs/userfaultfd.c: disable irqs for fault_pending and event locks > >Evan Green (1): > ALSA: hda: Fix widget_mutex incomplete protection > >Evan Quan (1): > drm/amd/powerplay: use hardware fan control if no powerplay fan table > >Frieder Schrempf (1): > mtd: spinand: Fix max_bad_eraseblocks_per_lun info in memorg > >Geert Uytterhoeven (1): > fs: VALIDATE_FS_PARSER should default to n > >Gerd Hoffmann (1): > drm/virtio: move drm_connector_update_edid_property() call > >Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): > blk-mq: fix up placement of debugfs directory of queue files > >Hauke Mehrtens (1): > MIPS: Fix bounds check virt_addr_valid > >Herbert Xu (1): > lib/mpi: Fix karactx leak in mpi_powm > >Jan Kara (1): > dax: Fix xarray entry association for mixed mappings > >Jann Horn (1): > ptrace: Fix ->ptracer_cred handling for PTRACE_TRACEME > >Jiri Kosina (1): > ftrace/x86: Anotate text_mutex split between >ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process() and >ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare() > >Joshua Scott (1): > ARM: dts: armada-xp-98dx3236: Switch to armada-38x-uart serial node > >Juergen Gross (1): > mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init > >Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant (1): > MIPS: fix build on non-linux hosts > >Linus Torvalds (2): > Revert "mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages" > Linux 5.2 > >Linus Walleij (1): > gpio/spi: Fix spi-gpio regression on active high CS > >Liran Alon (2): > KVM: nVMX: Allow restore nested-state to enable eVMCS when vCPU in SMM > KVM: nVMX: Change KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS to signal vmcs12 is >copied from eVMCS > >Lucas Stach (1): > drm/etnaviv: add missing failure path to destroy suballoc > >Lyude Paul (1): > drm/amdgpu: Don't skip display settings in hwmgr_resume() > >Matias Karhumaa (1): > Bluetooth: Fix faulty expression for minimum encryption key size check > >Maurizio Lombardi (1): > scsi: iscsi: set auth_protocol back to NULL if CHAP_A value is >not supported > >Miquel Raynal (2): > Revert "mtd: rawnand: sunxi: Add A23/A33 DMA support" > mtd: rawnand: sunxi: Add A23/A33 DMA support with extra MBUS configuration > >Nathan Chancellor (1): > arm64/efi: Mark __efistub_stext_offset as an absolute symbol explicitly > >Oleg Nesterov (1): > swap_readpage(): avoid blk_wake_io_task() if !synchronous > >Paolo Bonzini (1): > KVM: x86: degrade WARN to pr_warn_ratelimited > >Paul Cercueil (2): > MAINTAINERS: Correct path to moved files > mtd: rawnand: ingenic: Fix ingenic_ecc dependency > >Paul Menzel (1): > nfsd: Fix overflow causing non-working mounts on 1 TB machines > >Petr Mladek (1): > ftrace/x86: Remove possible deadlock between register_kprobe() >and ftrace_run_update_code() > >Richard Sailer (1): > ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for several Clevo notebook barebones > >Robert Beckett (2): > drm/imx: notify drm core before sending event during crtc disable > drm/imx: only send event on crtc disable if kept disabled > >Robin Gong (1): > dmaengine: imx-sdma: remove BD_INTR for channel0 > >Roman Bolshakov (1): > scsi: target/iblock: Fix overrun in WRITE SAME emulation > >Ronnie Sahlberg (1): > cifs: fix crash querying symlinks stored as reparse-points > >Shakeel Butt (1): > mm/vmscan.c: prevent useless kswapd loops > >Sricharan R (1): > dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix completed descriptors count > >Stefan Hellermann (1): > MIPS: ath79: fix ar933x uart parity mode > >Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1): > ftrace/x86: Add a comment to why we take text_mutex in >ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare() > >Sven Van Asbroeck (1): > dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix use-after-free on probe error path > >Takashi Iwai (1): > ALSA: line6: Fix write on zero-sized buffer > >Takashi Sakamoto (1): > ALSA: firewire-lib/fireworks: fix miss detection of received MIDI messages > >Takeshi Misawa (1): > tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_err_log_open() > >Vincent Whitchurch (1): > crypto: cryptd - Fix skcipher instance memory leak > >Wanpeng Li (1): > KVM: LAPIC: Fix pending interrupt in IRR blocked by software disable LAPIC > >Zhang Lei (1): > KVM: arm64/sve: Fix vq_present() macro to yield a bool