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Linux 3.8 rc1

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Linus Torvalds
Dec 27, 2012
The longest night of the year is upon us (*), and what better thing todo than get yourself some nice mulled wine, sit back, relax, and playwith the most recent rc kernel?This has been a big merge window: we've got more commits than anyother kernel in the v3.x kernel series (although v3.2-rc1 was *almost*as big). It's been a rather busy merge window, in other words.The diffstat looks normal: about 63% of the patch being to drivers(staging, networking, scsi, gpu, sound, drbd etc) , 18% architectureupdates (with various ARM platform things being the bulk of it asusual, sigh), and the rest being "various", like core networking,filesystems (new f2fs flash-optimized filesystem) and include filesetc.I'm appending the "merge shortlog" which is about the only half-wayreadable automated data I can give you. There's a *ton* of stuff here.Go out and test it,              Linus(*) And by "us" I mean mainly people in the same timezone andhemisphere as I am. Because I'm too self-centered to care aboutanybody else.
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