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Linux 4.8 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
Sep 12, 2016
Things calmed down, and look very normal. About two thirds driverupdates, with half of the remainder being misc architecture updates,and the rest being random stuff (some fs/crypto fixes etc).Of course, just minutes after I pushed it out, David sent me thenetworking pull request, so there's perhaps a reason why rc6 looksfairly small. Oh well. I still haven't decided whether we're going todo an rc8, but I guess I don't have to decide yet. Nothing looksparticularly bad, and it will depend on how rc7 looks.Shortlog appended - it's small enough to easily scan to get a feel forwhat's been going on.                 Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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