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Linux 4.15 rc8

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Linus Torvalds
Jan 15, 2018
Ok, another week has gone by, and here's the promised rc8.I'm still hoping that this will be the last rc, despite all theMeltdown and Spectre hoopla. But we will just have to see, itobviously requires this upcoming week to not come with any hugesurprises.The patches aren't huge, but architecture updates do end up being alargish part. That's partly due to the x86 "retpoline" support (well,the basic stuff that is uncontested), but also because the powerpcpeople decided they wanted to play too, so there's some low-levelkernel entry changes there too. Aren't we lucky?Oh, and there's a small RISC-V update too.But outside of that, we've got driver updates (gpu, networking, usb,sound, NVMe), some core networking, and some tooling updates (mostly afew new x86 selftests). And some random misc fixlets (documentation,apparmor, crypto).Go forth and test. It all looks pretty solid to me,                         Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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