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Linux 5.1 rc1

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Linus Torvalds
Mar 17, 2019
It's Sunday, and two weeks have passed, and everything is normal. Youall know the drill by now - the merge window is closed, and things aresupposed to calm down.The merge window felt fairly normal to me. And looking at the stats,nothing really odd stands out either. It's a regular sized release(which obviously means "big" - , but it's not bigger than usual) andthe bulk of it (just over 60%) is drivers. All kinds of drivers, theone that stands out for being different is the habanalabs AIaccelerator chip driver, but I suspect we'll be starting to see moreof that kind of stuff. But there are all the usual suspects too - gpu,networking, block devices etc etc.A somewhat recent development is how the tools/testing/ updates havebeen quite noticeable lately. That's not new to the 5.1 merge window,it's been going on for a while, but it's maybe just worth a mentionthat we have more new selftest changes than we have architectureupdates, for example. The documentation subdirectory is also quitenoticeable.But on the whole, there's really stuff all over, including core VFSupdates (in addition to all the usual low-level filesystem updatestoo, of course).And as always, the shortlog is much too big to post with 11k+ commits(12k+ if counting merges). So below is my usual "mergelog" listingsubmaintainers and a summary of the git pulls I've done from them..Go forth and test,                  Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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