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Kernel prepatch 5.9-rc1

([Kernel] Aug 16, 2020 21:24 UTC (Sun) (corbet))


Linux has [1]released the 5.9-rc1 kernel prepatch and closed the merge window for this development cycle. " This merge window felt a lot more normal than 5.8, and all the stats confirm that it seems to be the usual size. " In the end, 12,866 non-merge changesets were pulled for 5.9-rc1, as compared to 14,206 for 5.8-rc1.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/828894/

Nature to all things fixed the limits fit,
And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.
As on the land while here the ocean gains,
In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains;
Thus in the soul while memory prevails,
The solid power of understanding fails;
Where beams of warm imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
-- Alexander Pope (on runtime bounds checking?)