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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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| 28-Jul-2026 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'wireless-2026-07-26' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== wireless-next-2026-07-26
Mostly driver changes th
Merge tag 'wireless-2026-07-26' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== wireless-next-2026-07-26
Mostly driver changes this time: - new driver mm81x for an S1G device - new driver nxpwifi for NXP devices (mostly forked off from mwifiex) - ath12k: much kernel infrastructure integration work - brcmfmac: DPP support, some Cypress part update - nl80211: per-link statistics support ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260726105205.942922-60-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 21-Jul-2026 |
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> |
Merge tag 'mm81x-driver-08-07-2026' of https://github.com/MorseMicro/linux
Lachlan Hodges says: ==================== Introduce mm81x driver for mm81x based chipsets plus associated SDIO ids. =======
Merge tag 'mm81x-driver-08-07-2026' of https://github.com/MorseMicro/linux
Lachlan Hodges says: ==================== Introduce mm81x driver for mm81x based chipsets plus associated SDIO ids. ====================
[list the full vendor directory in MAINTAINERS] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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| 07-Jul-2026 |
Lachlan Hodges <lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com> |
wifi: mm81x: add mm81x Wi-Fi HaLow driver
mm81x is the first Wi-Fi HaLow driver to support the Morse Micro mm81x chip family via USB and SDIO.
S1G support in the kernel is only new, and as a result
wifi: mm81x: add mm81x Wi-Fi HaLow driver
mm81x is the first Wi-Fi HaLow driver to support the Morse Micro mm81x chip family via USB and SDIO.
S1G support in the kernel is only new, and as a result this driver has been scoped to be simple and only support station and AP interface. The Wi-Fi specific features only cover the minimum required for basic use such as powersave, aggregation, rate control and so on. The driver will be extended into the future as S1G support for operations such as ACS, channel switching and so on are added into the wireless stack.
The driver has been build tested on a long list of architectures and compilers via Intels LKP.
The driver currently supports IEEE80211-2024 US channels only, with AU 2020 also available. In order for this to be expanded additional non-trivial kernel work is required which will begin once the driver is upstream.
The driver has had many authors who are listed below in alphabetical order:
Co-developed-by: Andrew Pope <andrew.pope@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Pope <andrew.pope@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: Arien Judge <arien.judge@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Arien Judge <arien.judge@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: Ayman Grais <ayman.grais@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Ayman Grais <ayman.grais@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: Bassem Dawood <bassem@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Bassem Dawood <bassem@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: Chetan Mistry <chetan.mistry@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Chetan Mistry <chetan.mistry@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: Dan Callaghan <dan.callaghan@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Callaghan <dan.callaghan@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: James Herbert <james.herbert@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: James Herbert <james.herbert@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: Sahand Maleki <sahand.maleki@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Sahand Maleki <sahand.maleki@morsemicro.com> Co-developed-by: Simon Wadsworth <simon@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wadsworth <simon@morsemicro.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan Hodges <lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com>
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