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Linux 3.17 rc4

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 8, 2014
For a short while there, this week was really nice and calm, but thatwas mostly because the "linux-foundation.org" entry fell off the DNSuniverse, and my mailbox got very quiet for a few hours.  The rest ofthe week looked pretty normal."Pretty normal" isn't bad, though, and I'm not complaining. There isnothing particularly big or scary going on - we had a quick scareabout a stupid compat layer bug, but it seems to have been just afalse positive and resulted in some added commentary rather than anyreal code changes.The diffstat is pretty reasonable, and it's fairly spread out. We havethe usual arch and driver updates, but there's actually more changesunder fs/ than under either of those. That's largely due to just alate f2fs update, which I decided I couldn't be bothered to get tooupset about, most of it being pretty clear-cut fixes, with just a fewcleanups mixed in.And really, if the f2fs changes look biggish, it's mostly because therest is pretty small.Let's hope it all stays calm. I do note that neither Greg nor Davemended up sending me anything for rc4, which is probably the _real_reason why it's pretty calm and small.             Linus
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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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