The 3.18-rc6 prepatch is out, right on schedule. Linus says: “Steady progress towards final release, although we still have a big unknown worry in a regression that Dave Jones reported and that we haven’t solved yet. In the process of chasing that one down, there’s been a fair amount of looking at various low-level details, and that found some dubious issues, but no smoking gun yet.“
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