Linux 3.3 rc7

"I had been hoping that -rc6 would be the last -rc, but no such luck. Things just haven't calmed down sufficiently for me to feel comfy doing a final 3.3 release without another -rc, so here we are: 3.3-rc7 is out.

Now, none of the fixes here are all that scary in themselves, but there were just too many of them, and across various subsystems. Networking, memory management, drivers, you name it. And instead of having fewer commits than in -rc6, we have more of them. So my hope that things would calm down simply just didn't materialize.

I really would prefer not having an -rc8, though. And I do think we're in fairly good shape, I just didn't think we were quite there yet for a release. Thus this will hopefully *really* be the final -rc.

Linus

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