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Linux 4.8 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Aug 15, 2016
We've had a week since the merge window closed, and rc2 is out. Go test it.The diffstat for rc2 looks unusual, in that only about 1/6th isdrivers (normally drivers account for about half the bulk of theupdates). Instead, it's dominated by arch updates, and fs/ and mm/.But that's most likely just because the fixes to the bigger driverareas haven't started trickling in yet - rc2 tends to be a quietperiod after the craziness that is the merge window.And the reason mm/ stands out is mainly just because of a pull requestfrom the merge window that I had delayed until after rc1 in order tolook more at it.So I expect that things will be back to normal this upcoming week.Nothing really strange seems to be going on, so please just go out andtest it and report any problems you encounter.  It's obviously fairlyearly in the rc series, but I don't think there was anythingparticularly worrisome this merge window, so don't be shy..                       Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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