So 4.2-rc8 is out, and that obviously means that I ended up decidingto chicken out after all, and delay the 4.2 release one week.It's not like there are any real outstanding issues, and I waffledbetween just doing the release and doing another -rc. But we did haveanother low-level x86 issue come up this week, and together with thefact that a number of people are on vacation, I decided that waitingan extra week isn't going to hurt. But it was close. It's a fairlysmall rc8, and I really feel like it could have gone either way.So rc8 isn't a big rc, and most of it is actually some last-minutereverts for stuff that just wasn't quite ready. Mostly drivers, withsome networking, an x86 fix, and a smattering of perf tooling fixes.The shortlog gives an overview of the details. Linus 
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