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Linux 5.5 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
Jan 19, 2020
Well, things picked up at the end of the week, with half of my mergeshappening in the last two days.Whether that is the usual "send the weeks work to Linus on Friday", ora sign that things are just picking up in general after the holidays,I don't know.  If the former, I'll probably just release the final 5.5next week. But if it looks like there's pent-up fixes pending nextweek, I'll make another rc.Nothing in here looks particularly odd. Drivers is about half of thepatch (networking, sound, gpio, gpu, scsi, usb, you name it), with therest being the usual mix - arch, networking, filesystems, corekernel..  The diffstat looks mostly fairly nice and flat, with acouple of exceptions that look harmless (a few device tree fileupdates, some pure code movemment, and a couple of driver fixes thatended up changing calling conventions to get done and as a result gotto be more lines than the bug otherwise would have merited).Please do test, there should be nothing scary going on.              Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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