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It's pretty atypical to upgrade to the latest mainline linux kernel the day the kernel is released. Most distributions take time to pick up a new kernel and make it part of a major distribution release that is subject to more testing. The OP must be using a bleeding-edge rolling-release distro like Arch Linux or running a custom kernel. I wouldn't anticipate such problems if running a popular release based distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.

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Arch doesn't even have 5.6 in staging, let alone testing, let alone core. It was released less than 24 hours ago, that's barely enough time for the maintainer to test it on their own machines. No distribution releases a .0 kernel after 12 hours of testing to anybody except people who have explicitly opted into testing. and at that rate, there's a good chance you'll get -rc kernels too, and those are full of bugs (that's why they're -rc).

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