⇒ New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1:
The media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window and includes new hardware support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Media-Pull
⇒ Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement:
The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-sched-ext
⇒ New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1:
Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux