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Linux 5.3 rc8

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Linus Torvalds
Sep 8, 2019
So we probably didn't strictly need an rc8 this release, but with LPCand the KS conference travel this upcoming week it just makeseverything easier.And partly because of the extra week, we then had a few fixes thatmaybe otherwise would have been delayed and marked for stable. Themost notable one (but hopefully not very noticeable) is fixing raceconditions in configfs. That won't affect very many people, withconfigfs not all that widely used, but Christoph and Al both felt itneeded to be fixed.Other than that, it really is a very small rc (and hopefully the finalweek will be smaller still). In fact, the configfs fix along with avhost revert is about half of the patch. The rest is various smallthings: a few sound fixes, some drm fixes, and a few other randomfixes. Even in the drm case, the selftest addition is bigger than thecore code patches.The appended shortlog is short enough that it's easy enough to scrollthrough if you are interested in the details.              Linus
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