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Linux 4.2 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
Aug 17, 2015
So for most releases these days, rc7 is our last rc, and next weekwould be the final 4.2 release. But this time around, I still haven'tquite made up my mind. At rc5 release time, I worried about a fewremaining issues. Then, last Sunday at rc6 I was feeling pretty goodabout things. And now we've had another week, and we had some morefallout from the low-level x86 entry code rewrites, and I just don'tknow.So this may be the last RC, and it might not be. It will depend onwhether anything more comes up next week, and how good I feel aboutthings come next Sunday. A part of me is convinced that all the odd32-bit compat issues etc fallout is finally fixed, but a part of me isstill a bit leery.But on the whole, things have been fairly good. It's a pretty smallrc, with fairly normal statistics. 70% drivers (networking, ntb, xen,md, gpu), with the rest being mostly some architecture updates andsome non-driver networking updates. The appended shortlog gives theusual details - most of it is really pretty small.So a release next week is definitely still possible.                        Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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