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Linux 4.5 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
Mar 7, 2016
So things have finally calmed down this past week, and I think we'llend up with a normal release where rc7 is the last rc.Of course, I reserve the right to change my mind in case we findsomething worrisome, but on the whole it looks good. We did have somechanges that were larger than I'd like at this stage, but they weremostly to individual drivers. Most of the commits here are trivialone- and few-liner, with perhaps just the block layer standing out ashaving a couple of bigger changes (and those are "bigger" only inrelation to the rest, not particularly big in any absolute sense).The changes are all over the map, but about three quarters of it isdrivers (a usb-serial redundant driver removal is the biggest singlepiece, but it's a bit of everything, including compat sound fixed,gpu, watchdog, libata, rdma, etc). The rest is architecture fixes(sparc, x86, mips, arm) and filesystem fixes (jffs2, cifs, ceph,btrfs, but also a lovely fix to the dentry code that not just fixes abug but cleans up things a lot).So please do go out and test, because we should be pretty much donehere for this release, and things look fine.Shortlog appended as usual for the people who want more detailedinformation about the things that went on this week,                   Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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