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Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc6

The 7.3-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: Next week might look a bit different: we've got the annual maintainer summit and the Linux plumbers conference going on , so I'll be on the road, as will a number of other maintainers. That may or may not end up changing the stats for -rc7. But it's unlikely to affect the release schedule, although the fact that I have my yearly family…

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