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Linux 4.6 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Apr 3, 2016
You all know the drill by now - another week, another rc. I'd say thatthings look fairly normal at this point: it's not a big rc2, butthat's been true lately (rc3 tends to be a bit bigger - probably justbecause it takes time for people to start noticing issues).The patch statistics look fairly normal too: about half is drivers,almost a quarter is architecture fixups, and the rest is mostlynetworking and some documentation updates, but there's some corekernel/mm/fs fixes in there too.The shortlog is appended and gives a good flavor of the kinds ofchanges we have.Go out and test, nothing looks all that scary there.               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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