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Linux 4.17 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
May 29, 2018
So this week wasn't as calm as the previous weeks have been, but despitethat I suspect this is the last rc.This week we had the whole "spectre v4" thing, and yes, the fallout fromthat shows up as part of the patch and commit log. But it's not actuallydominant: the patch is pretty evenly one third arch updates, one thirdnetworking updates, and one third "rest".The arch updates are largely - although not exclusively - spectre v4.The networking stuff is mostly network drivers, but there's some corenetworking too.And "the rest" is just that - misc drivers (rdma, gpu, other),documentation, some vfs, vm, bpf, tooling..The bulk of it is really pretty trivial one-liners, and nothing looksparticularly scary. Let's see how next week looks, but if nothing reallyhappens I suspect we can make do without an rc8.Shortlog appended as usual. Go out and test.          Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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