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Linux 4.1 rc8

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Linus Torvalds
Jun 15, 2015
So I'm on vacation, but time doesn't stop for that, and it's Sunday,so time for a hopefully final rc.It turns out it's just as well that I wanted to drag the release outby a week so that I don't have the merge window while on vacation - westill have some fixes in md. As Neil Brown put it "Hasn't been a goodcycle for md has it :-(".The fixes are pretty small, and hopefully we're all good now. Butanother week of testing certainly won't hurt, so rc8 is perfectlyappropriate.There's also various other things going on, including continuing MIPSfixes as well, along with small ARM, s390 and x86 updates.But the bulk is (as usual) drivers, and no, that's not from the mdcamp (those fixes are very small). Mostly ethernet, slave-dma, andspund. But some drm fixes and random other noise too.There's some generic networking fixes as well, and random small stuff.The shortlog is appended as usual, for people who want to get anoverview of the details.Anyway, it's not like there is a *ton* of fixes, and most of them arevery small, so I don't think this is particularly worrisome. It's justthat rc8 works out not just because of my timing, but due tocontinuing small details cropping up.Let's make next week really calm, shall we? Because I will veryactively try to avoid having to read email.               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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