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Linux 4.12 rc1

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Linus Torvalds
May 14, 2017
So I'm doing this one day early, because I don't like last-minute pullrequests during the merge window anyway, and tomorrow is mother's day,so I may end up being roped into various happenings.Besides, this has actually been a pretty large merge window, sodespite there technically being time for one more day of pulls, Iactually do have enough changes already. So there.Despite it being fairly large, it has (so far) been pretty smooth. Idon't think I personally saw any breakage at all, which is alwaysnice. Usually I end up having something break, or trigger some sillybuild failure that really should have been noticed before it even gotto me, but so far things are looking good.Famous last words.The diffstat for this release looks a bit odd, because it's absolutelydominated by the new AMD Vega10 header files that have all theregister definitions in them. In fact, that's almost exactly half thelines of diff in just that.  And if you ignore that part, the newIntel Atom IPU driver ends up being a noticeable part of the rest.But if you ignore those two big additions, the statistics look prettynormal. Two thirds drivers, with the rest being arch updates,documentation updates and "misc" (filesystems, networking, headerupdates, core files).One thing worth noting - I haven't uploaded diffs or tar-balls forthis rc. Those should now be automagically generated by kernel.org forthe rc's, but that also means that they won't be signed by my key. Ifyou really care about signing, get the git repo and check the tag.Go test.                       Linus
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