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| 20-Aug-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases f
Merge tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases for us.
It's hard to draw any direct comparisons because summer vacations disrupted our patch processing (and presumably - generation) quite a bit.
Quick and dirty count suggests we (Paolo and I) merged a very similar number of net (632) and net-next (648) patches. This is not telling the full story either because 1/3 to 1/2 of the net-next patches also *seem* like AI-driven low priority fixes, cleanups and clarifications.
We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates some hallucinations. That said, in terms of review, the LLMs can only do so much.
The sad truth is that our APIs (especially for rare events like PCIe errors, timeouts etc) have always been racy, and now LLMs don't let us ignore that. I expect our direction for the next release will be to tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork, automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from people we trust...
Core & protocols:
- A few steps lowering rtnl_lock dependence: - per-netns netdev unregistration for select SW drivers (e.g. veth, ipvlan, tunnels) - rtnl_lock-less FIB rule changes (RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE) - prepare software drivers and TC qdiscs for rtnl_lock-less GET
- Support BIG TCP (>64kB TSO) in UDP tunnels (vxlan, geneve)
- Support buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE in devmem zero-copy API
- Improve MPTCP handling of extreme memory pressure handling, when out-of-order queue had to be pruned
- Report the per-group user count via RTM_GETMULTICAST
- Expose the route deletion reason in RTM_DELROUTE
- Add a SO_RIGHTS_NOTRUNC option to UNIX sockets to enable more useful handling of LSM denials when receiving SCM_RIGHTS messages: instead of truncating the message at the first blocked fd, keep every fd slot and store the LSM errno in the blocked slot
- IPv6 Segment Routing - support looking up the post-encap SID (address) in a different/specified routing table
- Support PRP RedBox (interlink) creation
- Support per-nexthop UDP dst port in VXLAN
- Continue converting getsockopt callbacks in a number of protocols to iov_iter
Ethernet:
- Merge initial CXL support for AMD/Solarflare NICs (shared branch with the CXL tree)
- New drivers: - ADIN1140 10BASE-T1S MACPHY - Initial skeleton of Intel iXD and ZTE Dinghai drivers
- High-speed NICs: - AMD/Pensando: - support firmware flashing - Cisco (enic): - SR-IOV V2 admin channel and MBOX protocol - Huawei (hns3): - support for ethtool pfc_prevention_tout - nVidia/Mellanox: - support sharing bandwidth control across interfaces of the same device - Marvell (octeontx2-pf): - link RQ page pools to netdev for Netlink stats - Google vNIC: - XDP metadata support for DQ RDA - Microsoft vNIC: - support forcing full-page RX buffers
- Other NICs: - Synopsys IP: - eic7700: support for eth1 - Microchip (lan743x): - support for RMII interface - Wangxun: - support for ethtool -G and -C for VFs - add Tx timeout and PCIe error handling - Intel (igb/igc): - RSS key get/set support - support for forcing link speed without auto-negotiation
- Switches: - NXP (dpaa2): - support bonding/LAG offload - Mediatek: - mt7530: EN7528 support - initial support for MT7628 - Micrel (ksz8/9): - refactoring work to move towards library model - PTP support for KSZ8463 - nVidia/Mellanox: - support rtnl-lock-less ethtool callbacks - Realtek: - rtl8366rb: use generic RTL83xx code - support SGMII and HSGMII for RTL8367S
- PHYs: - Airoha: - EcoNet EN7528 PHY support - DAPU Telecom - DAPU Telecom DAP8211R(I) Gigabit PHY support - Realtek: - support RTL8261C_CG - support RTL8261D
Wireless:
- nl80211: per-link statistics support for multi-link operation
- mac80211: AQL/airtime-fairness support for multicast
- Merge Peripheral Authentication Service (PAS) / TEE support for ath12k (shared branch with the firmware/qcom tree)
- New drivers: - mm81x for Morse Micro Long-Range S1G devices - nxpwifi for NXP devices (mostly forked off from mwifiex)
- Driver changes: - Broadcom (brcmfmac): - DPP support, some Cypress part update - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7928 support - mt7925 NAN support - mt7996 AP powersave improvements - Qualcomm (ath12k): - much kernel infrastructure integration work - AHB platform MultiPD support - Realtek (rt89): - LED support - RTL8922DE support - dual-BT coex for RTL8922D - Intel: - new FW version support
Bluetooth:
- HCI: add support for Shorter Connection Interval (SCI) feature
- af_bluetooth: add minimal context analysis annotations
- Driver changes: - Intel: - add Bluetooth SAR revision 2 support - add vendor_reset PCI sysfs for PLDR - Mediatek: - add USB IDs for MT7902 and MT7922 devices - Realtek: - add USB IDs for 8761CU and 8852BE devices - NXP: - add M.2 Bluetooth device support using pwrseq
Misc:
- DPLL support for manual/numerical oscillator control (NCO) (implement in zl3073x)
- MCTP support for MCTP over USB v1.1 (DMTF DSP0283)
- Power-over-Ethernet: support Realtek PSE controllers
- Remove the IBM EHEA driver
- Remove tulip/xircom_cb driver"
* tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1433 commits) net/mlx5e: do not HW-GRO coalesce small frames net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init net: add missing ref_tracker_dir_exit() to alloc_netdev_mqs() net: openvswitch: fix flow mask use-after-free on flow deletion sctp: stop processing a packet once its association is deleted dpll: zl3073x: add PTP clock support dpll: zl3073x: add channel ToD, phase step and TIE operations dpll: zl3073x: scale poll interval proportionally to timeout ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment() bonding: initialize err for empty target lists net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch net: dsa: initial MT7628 tagging driver net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MT7628 ESW net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add UART transport net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport net: pse-pd: add Realtek PSE MCU core dt-bindings: net: pse-pd: add bindings for Realtek PSE MCU vsock: use sock_error() to consume sk_err after a failed connect ...
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25b00c01 |
| 18-Aug-2026 |
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> |
Merge branch 'net-dsa-mt7628-embedded-switch-initial-support'
Joris Vaisvila says:
==================== net: dsa: mt7628 embedded switch initial support
This patch series adds initial support for
Merge branch 'net-dsa-mt7628-embedded-switch-initial-support'
Joris Vaisvila says:
==================== net: dsa: mt7628 embedded switch initial support
This patch series adds initial support for the MediaTek MT7628 Embedded Switch.
The driver implements the basic functionality required to operate the switch using DSA. The hardware provides five internal Fast Ethernet user ports and one Gigabit port connected internally to the CPU MAC.
Bridge offloading is not yet supported, but due to the CPU to switch link being Gigabit and all the user ports being Fast Ethernet, software bridging is a practical solution for the initial driver.
Tested on an MT7628NN-based board. ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813190241.789323-1-joey@tinyisr.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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15062bb0 |
| 13-Aug-2026 |
Joris Vaisvila <joey@tinyisr.com> |
net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch
Add support for the MT7628 embedded switch.
The switch has 5 built-in 100Mbps user ports (ports 0-4) and one 1Gbps port that is internally attac
net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch
Add support for the MT7628 embedded switch.
The switch has 5 built-in 100Mbps user ports (ports 0-4) and one 1Gbps port that is internally attached to the SoCs CPU MAC and serves as the CPU port.
The switch hardware has a very limited 16 entry VLAN table. Configuring VLANs is the only way to control switch forwarding. Currently 6 entries are used by tag_8021q to isolate the ports. Double tag feature is enabled to force the switch to append the VLAN tag even if the incoming packet is already tagged, this simulates VLAN-unaware functionality and simplifies the tagger implementation.
Signed-off-by: Joris Vaisvila <joey@tinyisr.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813190241.789323-5-joey@tinyisr.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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