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Linux 4.8 rc3

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Linus Torvalds
Aug 21, 2016
fter last weeks somewhat unusual patch statistics (only 1/6thdrivers), we're not back to the normal programming with rc3, and wehave the usual situation with roughly ~60% of the patch being driverupdates. It's spread out, but most of it tends to be networking, GPU,USB and a new EDAC driver.  But all of it is fairly small.Outside of the driver department, we've got core networking, somefilesystem updates (mainly xfs, although in the diffstat afs shows uptoo, but that's really from the networking changes) and a smatteringof updates all over: documentation, scheduler, some miinor archupdates etc.And some perf tooling fixes.It all looks pretty sane, I'm not seeing anything hugely scary here.Go test it out,              Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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