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Linux 5.4 rc3

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Linus Torvalds
Oct 13, 2019
Things continue to look fairly normal, with rc3 being larger than rc2,as people are starting to find more regressions, but 5.4 so farremains on the smaller side of recent releases.The diffstat looks fairly flat too, although we had a couple ofstaging drivers being removed here that show up as spikes. Drivers ingeneral account for about two thirds of the diff, and it's not justthose staging drivers, it's other small noise all over the place: usb,drm, iio, rdma..Outside of drivers, filesystems pop up more than perhaps usual, butit's again mostly low-grade noise all over: btrfs, cifs, nfs, ocfs,xfs and some core vfs fixes.The rest is arch updates (mainly arm64, x86, mips), tooling (mostlyperf tooling updates, but also some selftest fixlets), documentation,and misc core kernel and mm stuff.There really isn't anything huge that stands out. You can scan theappended shortlog for a flavor of the details, it's not too long tojust scroll through.              Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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