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Linux 3.16 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
Jul 21, 2014
Week by week, we're getting to what is supposed to be the last rc's,but quite frankly, things aren't calming down the way they aresupposed to.That was already true for rc5 - it was bigger than rc4. That didn'tworry me all that much, because rc4 was really pretty small. But nowrc6 is out, and it's bigger than rc5 was, and it's not even alltrivial stuff.That's not how this is all supposed to work.Anyway, rc6 still isn't all *that* big, so I'm not exactly worried,but I am getting to the point where I'm going to start calling peoplenames and shouting at you if you send me stuff that isn't appropriatefor the late rc releases. Which is not to say that people did: whilerc6 is bigger than I wished for, I don't think there's too muchobviously frivolous in there. But I'll be keepign an eye out, and I'llbe starting to get grumpy (or grumpiER) if I notice that peopel aren'tbeing serious about trying to calm things down.Regardless, rc6 itself ends up having changes pretty much all over:drivers (much of it networking, but there's gpu, there's infiniband,you name it), filesystems (late nfs fixes, xfs, fuse, gfs2, btrfs),core networking code, etc etc. The shortlog is appended for thoseinterested in (an overview of) the details.So go get the latest rc and kick the tires, to see that nothing hasfallen through the cracks, ok?             Linus
LT

Linus Torvalds

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