From Linus Torvalds <> Date Sun, 7 Aug 2016 18:46:09 -0700 Subject Linux 4.8-rc1 It's been two weeks, and the merge window for 4.8 is thus closed.



Due to travel last week, I actually still have a few pull requests

pending in my inbox that I just wanted to take another look at before

merging, but the large bulk of the merge window material has been

merged, and I wanted to make sure there aren't any new ones coming in.



This seems to be building up to be one of the bigger releases lately,

but let's see how it all ends up. The merge window has been fairly

normal, although the patch itself looks somewhat unusual: over 20% of

the patch is documentation updates, due to conversion of the drm and

media documentation from docbook to the Sphinx doc format. There are

other doc updates, but that's the big bulk of it.



If you ignore the documentation format change, things look fairly

regular, with about 60% of the non-documentation diffs being drivers

(gpu, networking, media, sound, etc) and about 15% being arch updates

(arm, powerpc and x86 dominate, but there's mips and s390 too).



The rest is spread out - core networking, tooling (mainly perf),

include files, core kernel, vfs and low-level filesystems (xfs stands

out). Few areas escaped:



10787 files changed, 612208 insertions(+), 272098 deletions(-)



Go out and test. The diffs and logs are too big to post, so as usual

for rc1, I'm just appending my "merge log" for a very high-level view.



Linus



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Al Viro (3):

vfs updates

qstr constification updates

more vfs updates



Alex Williamson (1):

VFIO updates



Alexandre Belloni (1):

RTC updates



Andrew Morton (5):

updates

more updates

yet more updates

even more updates

misc fixes



Bjorn Andersson (2):

remoteproc updates

hwspinlock updates



Bjorn Helgaas (1):

PCI updates



Bob Peterson (1):

gfs2 updates



Borislav Petkov (1):

EDAC updates



Brian Norris (1):

MTD updates



Bruce Fields (1):

nfsd updates



Catalin Marinas (1):

arm64 updates



Chris Mason (2):

btrfs updates

more btrfs updates



Chris Metcalf (1):

tile architecture updates



Christoph Hellwig (2):

configfs update

freevxfs updates



Corey Minyard (1):

IPMI updates



Dan Williams (1):

libnvdimm updates



Darren Hart (1):

x8 platform driver updates



Dave Airlie (3):

drm updates

i915 drm fixes

drm zpos property support



Dave Chinner (2):

xfs updates

more xfs updates



David Miller (4):

networking updates

sparc updates

IDE updates

networking fixes



David Teigland (1):

dlm updates



David Vrabel (1):

xen updates



Dmitry Torokhov (2):

input updates

more input updates



Doug Ledford (2):

base rdma updates

second round of rdma updates



Eric Biederman (1):

userns vfs updates



Greg KH (5):

char/misc driver updates

staging and IIO driver updates

tty/serial driver updates

USB updates

more USB updates



Greg Ungerer (1):

m68knommu updates



Guenter Roeck (2):

hwmon updates

more hwmon updates



Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt (1):

AVR32 updates



Helge Deller (1):

parisc updates



Herbert Xu (2):

crypto updates

crypto fixes



Ilya Dryomov (1):

Ceph updates



Ingo Molnar (21):

RCU updates

EFI updates

locking updates

RAS updates

perf updates

scheduler updates

NOHZ updates

x86/apic updates

x86 mm updates

x86 boot updates

x86 build updates

x86 cleanups

x86 stackdump update

x86 fpu updates

x86 platform updates

x86 timer updates

x86 fix

perf fixes

x86 header cleanups

x86 fixes

perf updates



Jacek Anaszewski (1):

LED updates



Jaegeuk Kim (1):

f2fs updates



James Bottomley (3):

SCSI updates

SCSI fixes

binfmt_misc update



James Hogan (1):

metag architecture updates



James Morris (1):

security subsystem updates



Jan Kara (1):

quota update



Jens Axboe (4):

core block updates

block driver updates

block fixes

more block fixes



Jiri Kosina (2):

trivial tree updates

HID updates



Joerg Roedel (1):

IOMMU updates



Jon Mason (1):

NTB updates



Jonathan Corbet (2):

documentation updates

documentation fixes



Jussi Brar (1):

mailbox updates



Kees Cook (2):

pstore subsystem updates

pstore fixes



Lee Jones (2):

MFD updates

backlight updates



Linus Walleij (2):

GPIO updates

pin control updates



Mark Brown (3):

regmap updates

regulator updates

spi updates



Martin Brandenburg (1):

orangefs update



Martin Schwidefsky (2):

s390 updates

more s390 updates



Mauro Carvalho Chehab (4):

media updates

media documentation updates

media DocBook removal and some fixups

mailcap fixlets



Michael Ellerman (2):

powerpc updates

more powerpc updates



Michael Tsirkin (1):

virtio/vhost updates



Michael Turquette (1):

clk updates



Michal Marek (2):

kbuild updates

misc kbuild updates



Mike Mashall (1):

orangefs updates



Mike Snitzer (2):

device mapper updates

device mapper fixes



Miklos Szeredi (2):

overlayfs update

fuse updates



Nicholas Bellinger (1):

SCSI target updates



Olof Johansson (7):

ARM SoC cleanups

ARM SoC platform updates

64-bit ARM SoC updates

ARM SoC defconfig updates

ARM SoC driver updates

ARM DT updates

64-bit ARM DT updates



Paolo Bonzini (2):

KVM updates

more KVM updates



Paul Moore (1):

audit updates



Radim Krčmář (1):

KVM leftovers



Rafael Wysocki (7):

power management updates

ACPI updates

PNP update

power management fix

more power management updates

more ACPI updates

PNP fix



Ralf Baechle (1):

MIPS updates



Rich Felker (1):

arch/sh updates



Richard Weinberger (2):

UML updates

UBI/UBIFS updates



Rob Herring (1):

DeviceTree updates



Russell King (1):

ARM updates



Rusty Russell (1):

module updates



Sebastian Reichel (2):

power supply and reset updates

HSI updates



Shaohua Li (1):

MD updates



Shuah Khan (2):

kselftest fixes

kselftest updates



Simon Horman (1):

SH drivers updates



Steve French (1):

CIFS/SMB3 fixes



Steven Rostedt (2):

tracing updates

tracing fixes



Takashi Iwai (2):

sound updates

sound fixes



Ted Ts'o (3):

ext4 updates

random driver updates

random driver fix



Tejun Heo (3):

cgroup updates

libata updates

more cgroup updates



Thierry Reding (1):

pwm updates



Thomas Gleixner (7):

timer updates

irq updates

smp hotplug updates

misc fixes

perf fixes

x86 cpufeature updates

x86 microcode updates



Tony Luck (1):

ia64 updates



Trond Myklebust (1):

NFS client updates



Ulf Hansson (1):

MMC updates



Vineet Gupta (1):

ARC updates



Vinod Koul (1):

dmaengine updates



Will Deacon (1):

arm64 fixes



Wim Van Sebroeck (1):

watchdog updates



Wolfram Sang (1):

i2c updates



