6.1.162-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.162 release. There are 280 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Responses should be made by Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:38:23 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.162-rc1.gz

or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.1.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.162 release. There are 280 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.