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Kernel prepatch 5.9-rc8

([Kernel] Oct 4, 2020 23:23 UTC (Sun) (corbet))


The [1]eighth and presumably final 5.9 prepatch is out for testing. " So things have been pretty calm, and rc8 is fairly small. I'm still waiting for a networking pull with some fixes, so it's not like I could have made a final 5.9 release even if I had wanted to, but there was nothing scary going on this past week, and it all feels ready for a final 5.9 next weekend. "



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/833476/

Somewhat alarmed at the continued growth of the number of employees
on the Department of Agriculture payroll in 1962, Michigan Republican Robert
Griffin proposed an amendment to the farm bill so that "the total number of
employees in the Department of Agriculture at no time exceeds the number of
farmers in America."
-- Bill Adler, "The Washington Wits"