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Linus Torvalds 80955ae955 Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1
Here are the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.8-rc1.  Nothing
 major in here this release cycle, just lots of small cleanups and some
 tweaks on kernfs that in the very end, got reverted and will come back
 in a safer way next release cycle.
 
 Included in here are:
   - more driver core 'const' cleanups and fixes
   - fw_devlink=rpm is now the default behavior
   - kernfs tiny changes to remove some string functions
   - cpu handling in the driver core is updated to work better on many
     systems that add topologies and cpus after booting
   - other minor changes and cleanups
 
 All of the cpu handling patches have been acked by the respective
 maintainers and are coming in here in one series.  Everything has been
 in linux-next for a while with no reported issues.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.8-rc1.
  Nothing major in here this release cycle, just lots of small cleanups
  and some tweaks on kernfs that in the very end, got reverted and will
  come back in a safer way next release cycle.

  Included in here are:

   - more driver core 'const' cleanups and fixes

   - fw_devlink=rpm is now the default behavior

   - kernfs tiny changes to remove some string functions

   - cpu handling in the driver core is updated to work better on many
     systems that add topologies and cpus after booting

   - other minor changes and cleanups

  All of the cpu handling patches have been acked by the respective
  maintainers and are coming in here in one series. Everything has been
  in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (51 commits)
  Revert "kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock"
  kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock
  class: fix use-after-free in class_register()
  PM: clk: make pm_clk_add_notifier() take a const pointer
  EDAC: constantify the struct bus_type usage
  kernfs: fix reference to renamed function
  driver core: device.h: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
  driver core: class: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
  driver core: mark remaining local bus_type variables as const
  driver core: container: make container_subsys const
  driver core: bus: constantify subsys_register() calls
  driver core: bus: make bus_sort_breadthfirst() take a const pointer
  kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing...
  driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_path_from_node_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_name_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk_ns() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  initramfs: Expose retained initrd as sysfs file
  fs/kernfs/dir: obey S_ISGID
  kernel/cgroup: use kernfs_create_dir_ns()
  ...
2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
arch Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
block for-6.8/block-2024-01-08 2024-01-11 13:58:04 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow 2023-12-29 11:25:56 +08:00
Documentation Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
drivers Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
fs Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
include Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
init Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
io_uring Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
lib 17 hotfixes. 10 address post-6.7 issues and the other 7 are cc:stable. 2024-01-17 09:31:36 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
net for-6.8/io_uring-2024-01-08 2024-01-11 14:19:23 -08:00
rust Rust changes for v6.8 2024-01-11 13:05:41 -08:00
samples media updates for v6.8-rc1 2024-01-12 14:29:48 -08:00
scripts Char/Misc and other Driver changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-17 16:47:17 -08:00
security misc cleanups (the part that hadn't been picked by individual fs trees) 2024-01-11 20:23:50 -08:00
sound sound updates for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-12 11:55:28 -08:00
tools Char/Misc and other Driver changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-17 16:47:17 -08:00
usr usr/Kconfig: fix typos of "its" 2023-12-20 15:02:58 -08:00
virt Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap Char/Misc and other Driver changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-17 16:47:17 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: 2024-01-11 19:46:52 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc and other Driver changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-17 16:47:17 -08:00
Makefile Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.