Another week, another rc.And it's another quiet week, to no surprise. I think things willstart picking up this upcoming week as everybody is getting back fromholidays, unless 5.5 just happens to be a particularly easy release(but there's no reason to think that - or the reverse).Nothing in rc5 really stands out, we have fixes all over - drivers (mainly networking, gpu, media, sound, block) - core networking - architectures (MIPS, RISC-V and Hexagon stand out in the diff, butthere's powerpc too, and some noise elsewhere from patches from Andrewtoo) - security subsystem fixes (apparmor and tomoyo)but it's generally just a bit of a mixed bag of small fixes all over.Shortlog appended, it's small enough to easily scroll through for aflavor of what's been going on. LinusPS. One sad piece of news I got this past week was that Bruce Evanshas passed away. Bruce wasn't really ever really much directlyinvolved in Linux development - he was active on the BSD side - but hewas the developer behind Minix/i386, which was what I used for theoriginal Linux development in the very early days before Linux becameself-hosting. 
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