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Linux 4.12 rc3

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LT
Linus Torvalds
May 28, 2017
Hey, things continue to look good, and rc3 isn't even very big. I'mhoping there's not another shoe about to drop, but so far this reallyfeels like a nice calm release cycle, despite the size of the mergewindow.Knock wood.Anyway, rc3 has a little bit of everything. The biggest single changeis actually just a documentation update (the intel pstate docs wereconverted to rst format), so the diffstat actually looks a bit oddwith a wuarter just being documentation. There's also some toolingupdates (perf and some bpf selftest).But if you ignore those two pieces, it looks pretty normal: two thirdsof it being drivers (gpu, nvme,  scsi, tty, block), with the remainderbeing about half networking and haf "misc" (core kernel, header files,XFS, arch updates).Go forth and test,               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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