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Linux 5.4 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Oct 6, 2019
Back to the usual Sunday afternoon schedule, and -rc2 is out.Nothing particularly stands out here. It's roughly one third archupdates, one third drivers, and one third "misc" (kvm selftests,networking, filesystems, core kernel, header files etc). No realtheme, just random fixes all over the place.The diffstat is pretty flat too, which is just another sign of "smallfixes all over".So nothing looks particularly worrisome, but usually rc2 is fairlycalm and it takes a while for any regressions to be noticed. And thisone was one of the nice small rc2's (5.2 and 5.3 rc2's were bothlarger than usual), but maybe it's because it was also a day shorter.Anyway, nothing for it but to go out and test, people. Go at it!               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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