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Linux 4.17 rc6

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
May 21, 2018
Things continue to be fairly calm. There's a couple of commits in here thataren't "trivial few-liners", but most of it really is pretty small. And infact, a quarter of the full patch for the week is tooling - and the bulk ofthat is the testing subdirectory.In fact, drivers are in the minority here, because another 30% is archupdates (arm, s390, x86), and we even have more lines of filesystem fixesthan we have driver fixes (admittedly mostly due to a few of themore-than-a-few-liner patches being to filesystems: afs and btrfs).We do have a few driver fixes (all over - hwmon, usb, sound, acpi, gpu),but it's all really small.So nothing special to report. Go read the shortlog, pull the changes,build, and test.  It should all be good and pretty stable by this point.                 Linus
SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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