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Linux 5.6 rc2

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Linus Torvalds
Feb 16, 2020
More than halt the rc2 patch is actually Documentaiton updates,because the kvm docs got turned into RST.Another notable chunk is just tooling updates, which is about 50/50perf updates (much of it due to header file syncing) and - again - kvmupdates.But if you ignore those parts, and look at only the actual kernel codeupdates, things look a bit calmer. The bulk ends up being networkdriver updates (intel "ice" driver - E800 series - stands out) withGPU updates a close second (i915, amd, panfrost). There's a few otherdriver updates in there too, but they are mostly hidden in the noisecompared to the network and gpu subsystems: rdma, sound, acpi, block,gpio etc.Outside of drivers, there's the usual smattering of changes all over.Filesystems (nfs, ext4, ceph, cifs, btrfs), architecture updates (x86,arm), and some core code (scheduling, tracing, networking, io_uring).The shortlog is appended, you can get a feel for the details by scanning it.Go forth and test,               Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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