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ACPI TAD DRIVER FIXES LAND AS 7.1-RC2 STABILIZES

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The kernel is tightening up core subsystems ahead of 7.1 final, with ACPI, networking, and storage all shipping targeted fixes overnight.

Linus pulled a wave of ACPI patches that address removal ordering bugs in the Time and Alarm Device driver and fix timer computation issues that could cause incorrect RTC behavior [1]. A companion merge swept in four separate ACPI branches [2] including a critical EINJV2 memory error injection fix in APEI, a CPU hotplug inconsistency in the CPPC library, and a quirk for HP OMEN 16 backlight handling. On the network side, the SMB3 client layer [3] got multichannel crediting fixes and allocation improvements in compound operations—high-impact for enterprise NFS users. The sound subsystem [4] landed a data race fix in the PCM OSS layer alongside device-specific quirks for HD-audio and USB-audio controllers. MTD subsystem [5] shipped Winbond octal SPI NAND support and an out-of-bounds fix that affects embedded storage stacks.

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  1. [1] ACPI TAD driver removal and timer fixes for 7.1-rc2
  2. [2] ACPI APEI, CPPC, and video quirk merges
  3. [3] SMB3 client multichannel and allocation fixes
  4. [4] Sound subsystem PCM OSS and device-specific fixes
  5. [5] MTD Winbond SPI NAND and out-of-bounds fixes

$ ls linux/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Omarchy polkit PAM stack skipped system-auth the month in review Linux 7.3 rc cycle fixes cgroup kill, SMB corruption
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What shipped in Linux on May 1, 2026?
The kernel is tightening up core subsystems ahead of 7.1 final, with ACPI, networking, and storage all shipping targeted fixes overnight. In total, 44 commits and 6 pull requests landed.
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$ log Linux --recent

drm-fixes backs out dma-buf debug, vfs closes pathwalk use-after-frees 29 shipped Netlink stops hashing the net pointer, stmmac clears a stuck RGMII interrupt 27 shipped Poly1305 carry fix lands, Omarchy locks down N1x laptops and idle fingerprint readers 23 shipped Omarchy copies agent logins over SSH, kernel queues 7.4 merges 106 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Alignment & Post-training verl rejects conflicting vLLM engine_kwargs, open-instruct adds MILES OPD behind a Megatron learner Interpretability nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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