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Linux 4.17 rc3

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Linus Torvalds
Apr 30, 2018
You all know the drill by now, and everything looks pretty normal. Asusual, we have an rc3 that is noticeably bigger than rc2 was. Whatever thereason for the pattern (whether it just be "people have had time to findbugs" or "people took a breather after the merge window"), the pattern isalive and well.And by now, I think we've fixed all the nastiest fall-out from the mergewindow. In particular, the PTI large-page fallout that hit some people withparticular configurations should all be good.But another marker of "things look normal" is that almost 60% of the patchis driver fixes all over: networking, gpu, sound, scsi, usb, you name it.Outside of drivers, we've got the usual architecture suspects: x86, arm64,powerpc. Some generic networking fixes, and misc tooling (perf andselftests). With some core kernel fixes in there too (mainly timers andtracing, the first mainly because we sadly had to revert the niceCLOCK_{MONOTONIC,BOOTTIME} unification because it turns out people reallydo care about the differences).Shortlog appended for the details.Go out and test,
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