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Linux 4.9 rc5

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Linus Torvalds
Nov 13, 2016
Back to my Sunday schedule, things look fairly normal. Calm first partof the week, with most fixes coming in towards the end.. I'm used toit by now.Things have definitely gotten smaller, so a normal release schedule(with rc7 being the last one) is still looking possibel despite thelarge size of 4.9. But let's see how things work out over the nextcouple of weeks. In the meantime, there's a lot of normal fixes inhere, and we just need more testing.The stats for rc5 look extremely boring (which is a good thing). Twothirds driver updates, 10% arch updates, 10% filesystems, the rest"misc". Nothing really stands out, with the possible exception of there-enablement of "-Wmaybe-uninitialized" again after Arnd fixed it allup.So go out and test,            Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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