• Linux_5.4

Linux 5.4 changelog.

This changelog is not complete, meanwhile you can read about it here:

• LWN's merge window part 1, part 2

or, instead, you can take a look at the list of merge requests:

• pidfd/waitid updates

• tpm updates

• EDAC updates

• RAS updates

• hwmon updates

• regmap updates

• regulator updates

• spi updates

• i3c updates

• GPIO updates

• iommu updates

• arm64 updates

• m68k updates

• RISC-V updates

• ia64 updates

• parisc updates

• ARM SoC platform updates

• ARM SoC driver updates

• ARM SoC defconfig updates

• ARM DT updates

• RCU updates

• EFI updates

• locking updates

• perf updates

• scheduler updates

• x86 asm updates

• x86 boot code cleanup

• x86 build cleanup

• x86 cpu-feature updates

• x86 entry updates

• x86 mm updates

• x86 platform update

• x86 hyperv updates

• x86 vmware updates

• x86 platform-drivers updates

• CPU hotplug updates

• x86 pti updates

• x86 interrupt updates

• core irq updates

• x86 apic updates

• core timer updates

• OpenRISC updates

• s390 updates

• Xtensa updates

• asm-generic updates

• cgroup updates

• documentation updates

• io_uring updates

• libata updates

• block updates

• MMC updates

• sound updates

• media updates

• LED updates

• dmaengine updates

• power management updates

• ACPI updates

• device properties framework updates

• KVM updates

• driver core updates

• USB updates

• tty/serial driver updates

• staging and IIO driver updates

• char/misc driver updates

• crypto updates

• networking updates

• vfs namei updates

• vfs mount API infrastructure updates

• file locking updates

• fscrypt updates

• fs-verity support

• AFS updates

• btrfs updates

• swap access updates

• xfs updates

• y2038 vfs updates

• misc mount API conversions

• autofs updates

• orangefs updates

• cifs updates

• configfs updates

• dma-mapping updates

• Devicetree updates

• mailbox updates

• IPMI updates

• input updates

• chrome platform updates

• pin control updates

• drm updates

• Kbuild updates

• kgdb updates

• tracing updates

• powerpc updates

• VFIO updates

• clk updates

• ARM SoC late updates

• printk updates

• asm inline support

• hmm updates

• RDMA subsystem updates

• device mapper updates

• SCSI updates

• libnvdimm updates

• MTD updates

• UML updates

• UBI, UBIFS and JFFS2 updates

• ext4 updates

• ext2, quota, udf fixes and cleanups

• f2fs updates

• gfs2 updates

• MIPS updates

• ARM updates

• modules updates

• soundwire updates

• remoteproc updates

• rpmsg updates

• RTC updates

• power supply and reset updates

• selinux updates

• HID updates

• smack updates

• PCI updates

• backlight updates

• MFD updates

• more mount API conversions

• Hyper-V updates

• x86 platform-drivers fixes

• Microblaze updates

• memory management updates from akpm

• more block updates

• more io_uring updates

• i2c updates

• iomap updates

• fuse updates

• ceph updates

• more memory management updates from akpm

• xen update

• more s390 updates

• NFS client updates

• Kselftest updates

• more perf updates

• NTB updates

• watchdog updates

• thermal management updates

• more io_uring updates

• pwm updates

• more KVM updates

• more RISC-V updates

• 9p updates

• fuse virtio-fs support

• nfsd updates

• integrity updates

• kernel lockdown mode

• hugepage allocation updates

• more i2c updates

• thermal SoC updates

• libnvdimm updates

• active entropy generation updates

• more cifs updates

• more vfs updates

• Documentation/process update

• more MMC updates

• csky updates