Linux 4.16 rc5 | Linux Today

Linux 4.16 rc5

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Linus Torvalds
Mar 11, 2018
This continue to be pretty normal - this rc is slightly larger thanrc4 was, but that looks like one of the normal fluctuations due totiming of pull requests, not due to anything distressing. Inparticular, this past week we had both a networking pull and a drmpull, which accounts for a fait chunk of it all.In addition to the networking updates (both drivers and corenetworking) and the drm stuff (mainly some amdgpu display handlingupdates), there's the usual arch fixes (mostly x86 this time -microcode handling and some syscall cleanups) and various randomdriver fixes (rdma, md, scsi, watchdog). Plus some misc stuff:filesystems (overlayfs, xfs) some core kernel code, and tooling(mainly perf and selftests).Nothing particular stands out, the appended shortlog gives a flavor ofthe details.               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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