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Linux 5.10 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
Nov 29, 2020
For the first part of the week, it really looked like things werecalming down quite nicely, and I mentally already went "Ahh,Thanksgiving week, this is going to be a nice small, calm rc".And then Friday rolled around, and everybody sent me their pullrequests for the week, and it all looks very normal again.But at least this week isn't unusually bigger than normal - it's apretty normal rc6 stat-wise.  So unless we have some big surprisingleft-overs coming up, I think we're in good shape.And the diffstat looks nice and flat too,  which is a sign of justwidespread small fixes, rather than some big last-minute changes. Theexception is a chunk of fixes to the new vidtv driver, but that is notonly a new driver, it's a virtual test-driver for validation anddevelopment rather than something that would affect users.That vidtv driver shows up very clearly in the patch stats too, butother than that it all looks very normal: mostly driver updates (evenignoring the vidtv ones), with the usual smattering of small fixeselsewhere - architecture code, networking, some filesystem stuff.So I'm feeling pretty good about 5.10, and I hope I won't be provenwrong about that. But please do test,                 Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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