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Kernel prepatch 5.10-rc4

([Kernel] Nov 16, 2020 15:32 UTC (Mon) (corbet))


The [1]5.10-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. " All looks good, and nothing makes me go 'uhhuh, 5.10 looks iffy'. So go test, let's get this all solid and calmed down, and this will hopefully be one of those regular boring releases even if it's certainly not been on the smaller side... "



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/837346/

I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric
value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value,
but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that. --lwall