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Kernel prepatch 5.9-rc3

([Kernel] Aug 31, 2020 12:47 UTC (Mon) (corbet))

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The [1]third 5.9 kernel prepatch is out for testing. " On the whole it's been pretty calm for being rc3. This is actually one of the smaller rc3's we've had in recent releases. "

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/830062/

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