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Linux 3.6 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
Sep 25, 2012
Ho humm. I really *really* want to say that this is the last -rc, butwe do have a few small things pending still. So who knows. There maybe a -rc8, we'll just have to see.That said, nothing here looks really bad. You can get a fairly goodfeel for the flavor of fixes form the appended shortlog, and most ofit really is very tiny - oneliners and "fewliners". Nothing reallylooks scary, although the powernow-k8/workqueue changes are prettycore (but fix a bug and actually clean stuff up). I think the biggestpatch is there is an s390 page table walking fix, and even that isn'treally all that big.So if everything works out well, and the upcoming week is calmerstill, I suspect I can avoid another -rc. Fingers crossed.Anyway, see below. Most of this is in drivers (net, gpu, infiniband,block..), architecture code (s390 and x86) and misc (xfs, workqueue,networking).It should all be pretty safe to test, so if you have held off becauseyou're nervous about rc's, please don't. The more testing we get, thebetter,            Linus
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