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Linux 4.2 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Jul 13, 2015
Another week, another rc. What can I say? Call me boring, but that'show this all works.This is not a particularly big rc, and things have been fairly calm.We definitely did have some problems in -rc1 that bit people, but theyall seemed to be pretty small, and let's hope that -rc2 ends up havingfewer annoying issues.The rc2 patch is roughly one third drivers (drm being the bulk of it),one third architectures (arm, mips and parisc, a smattering of x86)and one third "misc". That misc pile is mostly filesystems (btrfs) andsome timer updates, and then the perf tool build fix that involvedjust making some of the perf tool infrastructure private to the toolrather than trying to share it with the kernel. The shortlog belowgives more details, but you can also just scan it quickly (it's notthat big) to just get some kind of flavor for what's up.Go out and get it, and see how it all holds up,               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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