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Linux 5.4 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
Nov 3, 2019
Back from travels, and (knock wood) with not a lot of jetlag. So doingthe rc release the usual Sunday afternoon in the normal timezone for achange.I wish I could say things were calming down, but they aren't. Thisweek, the main culprit is networking - just about exactly half thepatch (and almost half the commits) is networking-related, eitherdrivers, core networking, or documentation.That's not because of some sudden influx of networking issues, it'sjust the usual timing thing - rc5 didn't get any networking pull atall, so rc6 has two weeks worth of networking fixes in it.But it does mean that we're not seeing the slowdown that I tend toexpect by this time (well, maybe "wish for" is closer than "expect" -I guess it's more the norm than the exception that rc6 is larger thanI would wish for in a perfect world.. ;^)There's no particular area or outstanding issue that is worrisome, butif things don't calm down this week, I suspect we'll be looking at oneof those releases when we have an rc8. We'll see how things evolvehere over the next couple of weeks.Anyway, outside of the networking changes, it's all the usual stuff:almost two thirds drivers (all over: gpu, hid, usb, rdma, sound,dmaengine, acpi..). With the rest being misc arch updates (risc-v,arm64, x86) and filesystem and core kernel fixlets.Shortlog appended, easy to scroll through.Go test, there's nothing scary in here,           Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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