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Linux 4.10 rc1

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Linus Torvalds
Dec 25, 2016
It's Christmas Day, and it's two weeks since the merge window opened.Thus, the merge window is now closed.I did a few final pulls today, but I also rejected a couple of pullsthat came in late in the window and looked dodgy. You know who youare.On the whole, this wasn't all that big a release - nothing like 4.9.Although it wasn't tiny either. I think 4.7 was smaller. 4.8 mighthave been too. It's xmas day, and right now I can't be arsed toactually do the statistics I'd normally do.Everything looks pretty normal, although we had an unusual amount oftree-wide final cleanups in the last days of the merge window. But thegeneral statistics look fairly common: a bit over half is drivers,maybe slightly less arch updates than normal, and a fair amount ofdocumentation updates due to the sphinx conversion. And then the usualmisc noise all over, although the perf tooling updates do stand out.The shortlog is much too big, as it always is during the merge window,so as usual you just get the merge-log.                Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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