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Linux 3.8 rc3

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 11, 2013

The holidays are over, and things are starting to get back to normal.
Except for Greg, I suspect, who is probably still digging his way out
of his email hole.

Anyway, another week, another -rc. A fairly normal-sized one. Most of
the changes are in drivers, with the bulk of them being one-liners all
over that just remove the last traces of __dev[init|exit].

But apart from that, there are real updates (GPU drivers stand out –
mainly radeon and exynos), and some architecture work (arm, powerpc,
mips, microblaze), filesystems (f2fs, gfs, cifs, nfs) and networking
(netfilter and sunrpc).

And I really hope things calm down. I realize there was some pent-up
patches from the holidays, but let’s make sure -rc4 really is smaller.
Ok?

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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