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Linux 4.4 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Nov 23, 2015
Things are looking fairly normal in 4.4-land, with no huge surprisesin rc2. There were a couple of late features: parisc hugepage supportand some late slub bulk allocator patches were not only merged at theend of the week, but they strictly speaking should have been mergewindow things.But the bulk allocator isn't actually _used_ in tree yet, and so theupdates on that front are about upcoming use rather than somethingthat can regress. And parisc I can't find it in myself to worry toomuch about: I happily challenge any parisc user to prove me wrong andshow how the new feature causes a regression. "Come at me, pariscbro".The bulk of the changes since rc1 (by far) are in drivers (roughly 70%of the patch - network and gpu drivers being the bulk of it) witharchitecture updates (12%, with parisc and s390 being the two biggestupdates) and core networking (8%) being most of the rest. The final10% is spread out, with fs, mm, and perf tooling being most of it.Shortlog appended, you can get kind of a flavor of what has been goingon from that. I can't really say that anything in particular standsout in there.Please go out and test,       Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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