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Linux 4.2 rc5

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Linus Torvalds
Aug 3, 2015
We're getting up there to the later rc's, but it's looking like 4.2might be one of the releases needing more than the usual seven rcreleases - things aren't calming down like I would wish, and we'vestill had some fairly annoying issues pop up.For example, there was a core VFS fix merged just yesterday - the bugitself was old, but some changes in this merge window ended uptriggering it much more easily. There's a pending i915 MST DPregression that is papered around for now, but that still needs work,and we had some fairly subtle fallout from the low-level x86 cleanupsand NMI.  There's also a pending question about some of the VMchanges.None of this is particularly disastrous or nasty, and the issues arehard to hit and fairly small details, so it's not like I'mparticularly worried. But it's just more than I wish was going on atthis stage of the release.  Maybe in two weeks when rc7 rolls around,I will be happier and feel like things are going smoothly and I'mgetting comfy with making the final 4.2, but right now I feel like Ireally want things to calm down and these issues not pop up.Anyway, apart from that slight unease, things are fairly normal. Not alot of arch noise this time(apart from the aforementioned NMI fallouton x86) - so just over three quarters of the changes are drivers, withdrm, infiniband, networking and scsi leading the charge. The rest ismostly filesystem and networking code.The shortlog is appended, it gives a reasonable overview of the details.Please do keep testing things. And know that if you send me a pullrequest that I deem questionable, I might not react politely. Wereally need to calm things down (not that this rc5 is all _that_ big),                         Linus
LT

Linus Torvalds

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