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Linux 5.10 rc5

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LT
Linus Torvalds
Nov 22, 2020
Hmm. The 5.10 release candidates stubbornly keeps staying fairly big,even though by rc5 we really should be seeing things starting to calmdown and shrink.There's nothing in here that makes me particularly nervous, but inpure numbers of commits, this is the largest rc5 we've had in the 5.xseries. Number of diff lines too, for that matter. And I can't evenclaim that it's because previous rc's have been small and missingstuff and we were just catching up.Anyway, changes all over, and apart from it being a bit more than I'dlike, it all looks fairly normal. About half of the patch is drivers,with the rest being fairly evenly spread out all over - architecturefixes, filesystems, networking, self tests..We'll have to see how this release shapes up, but I'm still hopefulfor things to calm down.   Otherwise we get into uncomfortableterritory for the next release with the holiday season coming up too.So go forth and test,             Linus
LT

Linus Torvalds

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