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Linux 2.6.26-rc6 [Released]

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LT
Linus Torvalds
Jun 13, 2008

“I’d like to say that the diffs are shrinking and things are
calming down, but I’d be lying. Another week, another -rc, and I
another 350 commits. Yes, the diff is smaller than the one from rc4
to rc5 (despite having more commits), so we’re on the right
trajectory, but I was hoping for less churn at this stage.

“As usual, most of the changes are to drivers (with arch updates
a strong second). The DVB updates are the biggest chunk of that,
but on the whole it’s quite spread out. As mentioned, the diffs are
smaller and there are more commits, and yes, most of the commits
are really rather small and trivial fixes…”

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