On 8/23/2025 7:51 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
I'm announcing the release of the 6.16.3 kernel.
All users of the 6.16 kernel series that use the ext4 filesystem should upgrade.
The updated 6.16.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.16.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git%3Ba=summa...
thanks,
greg k-h
Hi Greg,
Thanks for maintaining these as always. For the first time in a long time, I booted the latest stable (6.15.x -> 6.16.3) and somehow lost my networking. It looks like there is a patch from Intel (reported by AMD) that did not make it into stable 6.16.
e67a0bc3ed4fd8ee1697cb6d937e2b294ec13b5e - ixgbe https://lore.kernel.org/all/94d7d5c0bb4fc171154ccff36e85261a9f186923.1755661... - i40e
This asset is a quad-port embedded Intel NIC, previously eno1..4, now eno1np0, eno2np1, eno3np0, eno4np1.
Seems like there's a bit of a debate right now over should this get carried in the tree (this 1/4 state stuff is no good). Anyway, upgrading the kernel broke my networking, and because this is carried in 6.17-rc3 for ixgbe it will break again. I honestly don't care if it's some ridiculous systemd thing or the kernel that fixes this, just that there's a note on how to migrate for the common man (and that there is a material change to how interfaces are exposed).
Kyle.