This "We don't start adding new features just because you found other bugs"
sounds absurd. So, if we find bugs, they can't be fixed if we need to extend the
functionality before the release? Excuse me, what? I clearly understand the
absurdity of this requirement. Because it effectively means that if we notice
that ext4 is corrupting data only in RC simply because some code was forgotten
to be added to a subsystem during the release window, we can't accept the fix
because it requires adding new functionality and we will release the version
with the problem. I clearly understand that this is not the exact situation,
but it was done as a solution to an existing user's problem. Moreover, the
amount of changes is not that significant. Especially since it's not really a
fix but a workaround, a useful one that can actually help some real users in
certain situations.
new USB serial driver device ids 6.12-rc7 is this new functionality or not?
ALSA: hda/realtek: Support mute LED on HP Laptop 14-dq2xxx 6.11-rc7 - new
functionality?
ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable Mute Led for HP Victus 15-fb1xxx - 6.11-rc7
Octeontx2-pf: ethtool: support multi advertise mode - 6.15-rc5
drm/i915/flipq: Implement Wa_18034343758
drm/i915/display: Add drm_panic support
Is this different? Or are the rules somehow not for everyone?
But no, instead, this is what happened.