Linux 5.4-rc5
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 27th of October 2019 08:59:20 PM
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So usually by this time, I wish things were calming down. We've had a few fairly small rc's so far in the 5.4 series, and sadly rc5 isn't shrinking from that smaller baseline. So unlike the previous rc's that were on the smaller side compared to recent releases, 5.4-rc5 is a bit _bigger_ than the rc5's of the last few releases. It's not huge, by any means, and partly exactly because previous rc's were small, I'm going to treat it as just some pent-up work going in, and I'm not worried. So things still seem pretty normal, and none of the patches look all that scary to me. I'm still on the road, with OSS EU starting tomorrow, but apart from a few long flights I should be fairly normally responsive and my travels shouldn't be impacting the upcoming week. Particularly since I hope that we'll at least start seeing a proper calming down period for rc6. Anyway, shortlog is appended below for people who want to scan the details. It's all very normal, with about half of the patch being drivers (sound, pinctrl, regulator, gpu, cpufreq, usb..), with the rest being arch updates, filesystem updates, misc core stuff and documentation. So we have a bit more fixes than normal during this stage, but nothing looks very strange, and the diffstat looks _mostly_ flat (with the cpufrequency power-QoS and io_uring changes looking a bit bigger) which is my sign for "small changes all over". Go test, Linus
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