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Linux 4.11 rc8

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LT
Linus Torvalds
Apr 24, 2017
So originally I was just planning on releasing the final 4.11 today,but while we didn't have a *lot* of changes the last week, we had acouple of really annoying ones, so I'm doing another rc releaseinstead.  I did get fixes for the issues that popped up, so I couldhave released 4.11 as-is, but it just doesn't feel right.It's not like another week of letting this release mature will really hurt.The most noticeable of the issues is that we've quirked off some NVMepower management that apparently causes problems on some machines.It's not entirely clear what caused the issue (it wasn't just limitedto some NVMe hardware, but also particular platforms), but let's testit.And we had several oops fixes too, even if they were for pretty special cases.So go out and test, guys and gals, and make sure that I can do a finalrelease next weekend instead, ok?
LT

Linus Torvalds

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