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Linux 5.7 rc6

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Linus Torvalds
May 17, 2020
Another week, another rc.Last weekend, we had a larger-than-usual rc5, which I expected becauserc4 had been small and so there was some pent-up fixing work thatended up in rc5.This weekend, we had an even bigger rc6, and I really hoped we were inthe calming down period.So I'm not entirely happy about this. That said, there's nothingparticularly scary in here, and it's not like this rc6 is outrageouslybig or out of control. I was just hoping for less.About a quarter of this is arch updates (arm[64], csky, x86, powerpc,risc-v) with an additional 5% being some x86 kvm selftests.The rest is mostly driver updates (gpu, usb, networking, rmda, clk)with a random mix of other stuff (filesystem updates, tracing, mm, andcore networking).Nothing really stands out, but let's hope things calm down now.                 LinusPS. On a personal note, my middle daughter graduated collegeyesterday. Congrats to her - and to me. Two down, one to go!
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Linus Torvalds

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