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Linux 4.0 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Mar 4, 2015
So rc2 missed the usual Sunday afternoon timing, because I spent mostof the weekend debugging an issue that happened on an old Mac Mini Ihave around, and I hate making even early -rc releases with problemson machines that I have direct access to. Even if it only affected oldmachines that actual developers are unlikely to have or at least use.Today I got the patch from Daniel Vetter to fix it, so instead ofdoing a Sunday evening rc2, it's a Tuesday morning one. Go get it. Itworks better for the delay.Other than that little one-liner i915 fix? Not much, actually. It'sbeen a very quiet week, for being this early in the release process.Sure, 3.19-rc2 was even smaller, so it continues a trend, but that wasthe xmas week. I hope this low volume is just because the 4.0 mergewindow itself was somewhat calmer than most recent releases. But Isuspect the real reason is that the driver and networking trees fromGregKH and davem are pending, and didn't make rc2.We'll see.Anyway, the shortlog is appended, and testing is appreciated,                          Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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