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Linux 4.10 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
Feb 5, 2017
Hey, look at that - it's all been very quiet, and unless anything badhappens, we're all back to the regular schedule with this being thelast rc.Of course, when I actually looked at my calendar, I realized that ifthat actually happens, the next merge window will be awkward for medue to travel, so it turns out that I should never have hoped forthings calming down in the first place. But I've done merge windowsduring travels before, so it's not like it would necessarily be a bigproblem.And anything might happen during the next week anyway.Anyway, rc7 is pretty small, with about half being driver fixes(networking, GPU and HID accounts for most of it), 20% arch updates(x86, sparc powerp, some arm64 crypto) and the rest is "misc":filesystems, generic networking, VM, genksyms scripting etc.It's all fairly small, and nothing particularly stands out (apart fromme being reminded once more about how much I hate modversions - we hitanother random architecture-specific tooling bug that was triggered byit). Shortlog appended for the people who want to get an overview ofthe details.
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