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Linux 4.5 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Feb 1, 2016
As late as Friday, I was planning on talking about how nice it is tosee this new trend of tiny rc2 releases, because there really hadn'tbeen very many pull requests at all.But it turns out the pull requests were just heavily skewed to the endof the week, and 4.5-rc2 isn't particularly small after all. It prettymuch doubled over the weekend.Not that it's all that big anyway, and skewing towards the end of theweek probably makes sense for rc2 - it takes some time to startfinding the problems that the merge window has brought with it. Sothis odd behavior doesn't worry me, it seems fairly natural.As to the kinds of patches we have here: the appended shortlog givesmore details, but it's pretty much all over. Drivers and architectureupdates are only about half of the patch, with perf fixes and some ofthe new virtio self-tests being much of the rest. There's some btrfsfixes too.None of it is all that big, though.Go forth and test,                 Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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