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Linux 3.12 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
Oct 28, 2013
The KS week is over, and thus the seventh - and likely the last - rcfor 3.12 is out, and I'm back on the normal Sunday schedule.The slowdown in -rc sizes sadly reversed itself here, mostly due tothe networking updates that hadn't come in for rc5-rc6. You can seethat in the diffstat, with more than 50% being networking (both driverand core) patches. The rest is generally other drivers (gpu, media,scsi, thermal, HID) and some smaller arch updates (s390, parisc, x86).Nothing looks particularly shocking, though, so we're still on trackfor 3.12.  Which does mean, that with me having more travel coming up,the 3.13 merge window will likely end up being a bit messed up.I can usually schedule around these kinds of things, but with twodifferent trips and just a week in between, I have the choice ofeither just delaying 3.12 for no good reason, or just saying "ok,we'll just keep the merge window open a bit longer because I won't beable to be as responsive as I should be".But who knows. If something particularly worrisome comes up during theupcoming week, I might just say "Ok, we'll do an rc8 instead". So I'mkeeping my options open.                  Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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