[$] The first half of the 6.5 merge window

Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/936418/

The first days of the 6.5 merge window have been a bit calmer than usual,
with “only” 4,000 non-merge changesets having been pulled into the mainline
repository. Those changesets include a fair amount of significant work,
though. Read on for LWN’s summary of the first set of changes merged for
the next major kernel release.