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Linux 3.16 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Jun 23, 2014
It's a day early, but tomorrow ends up being inconvenient for me dueto being on the road most of the day, so here you are. These days mostpeople send me their pull requests and patches during the week, soit's not like I expect that a Sunday release would have made much of adifference. And it's also not like I didn't have enough changes formaking a rc2 release.Anyway, enough excuses. 3.16-rc2 is out, and contains the usualassortment of fixes all over the map. The most unusual part at thispoint is how the sparc changes stand out (at almost 40% of the patchby bulk), but they are basically all just sparse warning cleanups.Similarly, some Nouveau drm changes standing out size-wise, but againthose are largely due to small firmware fixes resulting in biggenerated changes. The actual real changes are fairly small.Ignoring those two unusually large changes (in lines), everything elselooks fairly normal. There are driver changes, some tooling updates(particularly perf), and various other arch updates (arm, s390,unicore32, x86..). And just misc random stuff all over the place -rtmutex, btrfs, yadda yadda.The shortlog is not tiny, but small enough to include here, so you cansee the details there if you care.Please do go test it out,           Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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