Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:28:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Oh, it's pretty much 100%.

Oh good.

> I can't imagine what would make me skip an rc8 at this point.
> Everything looks good right now (but not rc7, we had a stupid bug),
> but I'd rather wait a week than fins another silly bug the day after
> release (like happened in rc7)..

Yeah, -rc8 is clearly the best idea, why *wouldn't* one do it?!

:-)))

> We're talking literal "biblical burning bushes telling me to do a
> release" kind of events to skip rc8 by now.

If you do, it probably'll look like this:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 992d24467ca0..5e8819b99110 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 VERSION = 5
 PATCHLEVEL = 9
 SUBLEVEL = 0
-EXTRAVERSION = -rc7
-NAME = Kleptomaniac Octopus
+EXTRAVERSION =
+NAME = Biblical Burning Bushes
 
 # *DOCUMENTATION*
 # To see a list of typical targets execute "make help"

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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