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Linux 4.2 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
Aug 9, 2015
So last week I wasn't very happy about the state of the releasecandidates, but things are looking up. Not only is rc6 finallyshrinking noticeably, the issues I was worried about had fixes come inearly in the week, and so I don't have anything big pending. Assumingnothing new comes up, I suspect we will end up with the regularrelease schedule after all (ie in two weeks). Knock wood.In -rc6 , the diffstat looks a bit odd, in that the ARC arch updatesdominate (at around 30% of the diffs). That's partly because the restis pretty small, and partly because the llock/scond livelock fixwasn't tiny. But I don't find it in myself to worry about it.Apart from that ARC oddity, things look normal. Mostly drivers (gpu,sound, i2c, input,  usb, thermal, you name it) and other architectureupdates (mips and sparc). With some filesystem and VM fixes roundingup the changes.But please go out and test, and make sure all the issues really are solved. Ok?                Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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