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So the merge window is over, and rc1 is out there. Go test!It's a fairly normal release - neither unusually big or unusuallysmall. The statistics look fairly normal too, with drivers being a bitover 70% of the bulk (the big driver areas being gpu, networking,sound, staging, fbdev, but its all over). The shortlog is too big andunwieldly to post, but I'm appending my "mergelog" which credits themaintainers I merge from - not necessarily the people who did theactual individual patches.Aside from drivers, we have architecture updates (over half of itbeing arm - both 32- and 64-bit this time around, the rest is powerpc,x86, mips, s390). On the arch front, it's probably worth mentioningthat apparently the arm people have finalized their platform work, andthat you really can build a generic ARM kernel for all the ARMv6/7platforms (and describe the hardware with devicetree). It's been manyyears in coming. Good job.There's also obviously the usual documentation, filesystem, genericnetworking, and core kernel updates. A number of nice MM cleanuipscame in through Andrew this time around, for example, and Al Viro madepathname lookup stay in RCU mode even over symlink traveral.So there's a little something for anybody. Linus