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Linux 4.16 rc2

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Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 19, 2018
It's been a quiet week, and rc2 is out.I take the fairly quiet rc be a good sign for 4.16, but honestly, rc2is often fairly calm. That's probably because people are taking abreather after the merge window, but also simply because it might takea while to find any issues.But let's be optimistic, and just assume - at least for now - thatit's because all is well.The diffstat is fairly odd, but that often happens with small rc'sjust because then just a couple of pulls will skew things easily inone or two directions. This time the patch is about one thirdarchitecture updates (arm64, x86, powerpc), one third tooling (mostly'perf') and one third "rest". And yes, the bulk of that rest isdrivers (gpu, nvme, sound, misc), but those drivers are stilldistinctly *not* the bulk of the whole patch.Go out and test, it all looks fine.                 Linus
SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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