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Linux 3.10 rc1

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Linus Torvalds
May 12, 2013
So this is the biggest -rc1 in the last several years (perhaps ever)at least as far as counting commits go, even if not necessarily inactual lines (I didn't check the statistics on that).Which was unexpected, because while linux-next was fairly big, itwasn't exceptionally so. I'm sure Stephen Rothwell will talk about thestatistics of commits that weren't in -next, we'll see if that was thereason..Anyway, despite the large number of commits, hopefully it's allboringly straigthforward. Sure.Now, even normally, there's no way to list all the changes, much lessso when it's an unusually large -rc1. But I can do my "merge shortlog"again, and it's worth mentioning (again) that the name attributed tothe merge is *not* necessarily the author of any of the code, it'sliterally just the person who emailed me the pull request. So you cansee this as an approximation of "first-level maintainership" orsomething, although even that is somewhat misleading since some ofthese things are really done by groups and then there's one person whoend up sending me the end result.But it's somewhat readable, and gives you a reasonable idea of what isgoing on. A better idea can be gotten by looking at git directly,especially since the merge commits often do contain a betterdescription of what happened. Not that all submaintainers necessarilyalways send me that, but most of the merges actually do havehuman-readable background information.It's possible that I missed something. This really was a busier mergewindow than usual. Holler if so,                    Linus
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