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Linux 4.4 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
Dec 21, 2015
Things remain fairly normal. Last week rc5 was very small indeed, thisweek we have a slightly bigger rc6. The main difference is that rc6had a network pull in it.But rc6 is still pretty small, and the patch looks pretty normal: justover 60% drivers, 16% core networking, 13% architecture updates, and10% "misc" (documentation, header files, some small filesystem updatesetc). Small stuff all around - you can see the appended shortlog for aflavor of what is going on.I'd expect (and hope) that with the holidays next week should continuebeing quiet.And maybe I can hope that people take the downtime to play with theirhardware and test out the most recent kernel version?               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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