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Linux 3.7 rc4

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 5, 2012
It's been a pretty calm week, so here's a nice small -rc for you guys.Rafael worried me for a while with what looked like a hard-to-debugregression report, but it turned out to be user-space breakageinstead, so things are looking pretty stable. Things also lookentirely normal: most of the changes here are various device driverissues, with a small smattering of other stuff (nfs client update,some minor arch updates, and some networking stuff).The driver fixes are pretty much all over - sound, gpu, HID and input,i2c, networking ..Perhaps notable just because of the noise it caused in certaincircles, there's the ext4 bitmap journaling fix for the issue thatcaused such a ruckus. It's a tiny patch and despite all the noiseabout it you couldn't actually trigger the problem unless you weredoing crazy things with special mount options.Other things? Nothing really stands out. The appended shortlog gives areasonable view into the kinds of details people have been working on.I'll be traveling the upcoming week, but I expect to have reasonableaccess to wifi, and if it stays this quiet and calm, nobody will evennotice.Go forth and test,                Linus
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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