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Kernel prepatch 5.8-rc1

([Kernel] Jun 14, 2020 22:14 UTC (Sun) (corbet))


Linus has [1]released 5.8-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. By the end, 14,206 non-merge changesets found their way into the mainline repository, making this one of the busiest development cycles ever. " So in the 5.8 merge window we have modified about 20% of all the files in the kernel source repository. That's really a fairly big percentage, and while some of it _is_ scripted, on the whole it's really just the same pattern: 5.8 has simply seen a lot of development. IOW, 5.8 looks big. Really big. "



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/823019/

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