So yet another week, another -rc. This one should be the last one: we're

certainly not running out of regressions, but at the same time, at some

point I just have to pick some point, and on the whole the regressions

don't look _too_ scary. And -rc8 obviously does fix more of them.
Most of the changes since -rc7 are pretty small, and there aren't even a

whole lot of them. The shortlog (appended) is just a couple of pages, and

the diffstat is even smaller, but since the dirstat is a dense overview,

I'll just put that here instead:
   4.6% arch/m32r/kernel/

   5.7% arch/m32r/

   9.5% arch/mips/pci/

  10.4% arch/mips/

   4.2% arch/x86/kernel/

   4.4% arch/x86/

  26.0% arch/

   3.5% drivers/usb/storage/

  10.4% drivers/usb/

   3.6% drivers/watchdog/

  23.8% drivers/

  11.5% fs/xfs/

  13.5% fs/

   3.7% kernel/

   9.8% net/9p/

  10.6% net/

   5.4% scripts/kconfig/

   5.9% scripts/

   7.4% sound/soc/codecs/

   8.4% sound/soc/

  10.1% sound/
and it's actually more spread out than usual. Arch and drivers are just

half of the patch even when combined. 
Give it a try,
		Linus
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Adrian Bunk (5):

      m32r: remove the unused NOHIGHMEM option

      m32r: don't offer CONFIG_ISA

      m32r: export empty_zero_page

      m32r: export __ndelay

      m32r/kernel/: cleanups
Adrian Hunter (2):

      UBIFS: TNC / GC race fixes

      UBIFS: remove incorrect assert
Akinobu Mita (2):

      [WATCHDOG] ibmasr: remove unnecessary spin_unlock()

      ibmasr: remove unnecessary spin_unlock()
Alan Cox (1):

      pcmcia: Fix broken abuse of dev->driver_data
Alan Stern (2):

      USB: unusual_devs addition for RockChip MP3 player

      USB: revert recovery from transient errors
Alex Chiang (1):

      [IA64] Ski simulator doesn't need check_sal_cache_flush
Alexander Beregalov (1):

      UBIFS: fix printk format warnings
Alexander Duyck (1):

      netdev: simple_tx_hash shouldn't hash inside fragments
Andrea Righi (1):

      x86, oprofile: BUG scheduling while atomic
Andreas Bombe (1):

      usb-serial: Add Siemens EF81 to PL-2303 hack triggers
Andreas Herrmann (1):

      x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
Andrew Morton (2):

      Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description

      USB: drivers/usb/musb/: disable it on SuperH
Andrew Vasquez (1):

      [SCSI] qla2xxx: Defer enablement of RISC interrupts until ISP initialization completes.
Anti Sullin (1):

      atmel_serial: update the powersave handler to match serial core
Atsuo Igarashi (1):

      kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb
Aurelien Jarno (2):

      [MIPS] BCM47xx: Fix build error due to missing PCI functions

      [SSB] Initialise dma_mask for SSB_BUSTYPE_SSB devices
Balbir Singh (1):

      mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit
Ben Dooks (1):

      [WATCHDOG] wdt285: fix sparse warnings
Boaz Harrosh (2):

      [SCSI] qlogicpti: fix sg list traversal error in continuation entries

      scsi: fix fall out of sg-chaining patch in qlogicpti
Borislav Petkov (1):

      ide-tape: fix vendor strings
Bruno Randolf (2):

      [MIPS] au1000: Fix gpio direction

      [MIPS] au1000: Make sure GPIO value is zero or one
Chris Adams (1):

      usb serial: ti_usb_3410_5052 obviously broken by firmware changes
Craig Shelley (1):

      USB: SERIAL CP2101 add device IDs
Daisuke Nishimura (1):

      memcg: check under limit at shrink_usage
David Almaroad (1):

      usb: unusual devs patch for Nokia 5310 Music Xpress
David Brownell (3):

      USB: ehci: fix some ehci hangs and crashes

      usb gadget: fix omap_udc DMA regression

      USB: fix EHCI periodic transfers
David Howells (3):

      MN10300: Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/

      MN10300: Make sched_clock() report time since boot

      ARM: Delete ARM's own cnt32_to_63.h
David S. Miller (2):

      sparc64: Fix disappearing PCI devices on e3500.

      sparc64: Fix missing devices due to PCI bridge test in of_create_pci_dev().
Eric Van Hensbergen (1):

      9p: fix put_data error handling
Felipe Balbi (1):

      usb: musb: fix include path
Filip Joelsson (1):

      USB: Fixing Nokia 3310c in storage mode
Gaetan Carlier (1):

      usb: ftdi_sio: add support for Domintell devices
Geoff Levand (1):

      USB: fix hcd interrupt disabling
Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):

      PCI: fix compiler warnings in pci_get_subsys()
Haavard Skinnemoen (1):

      ALSA: ASoC: Fix at32-pcm build breakage with PM enabled
Henrik Rydberg (1):

      Input: bcm5974 - switch back to normal mode when closing
Ingo Molnar (1):

      timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
Jack Tan (1):

      [MIPS] Fixe the definition of PTRS_PER_PGD
James Bottomley (1):

      [SCSI] Fix hang with split requests
Jaroslav Kysela (1):

      USB: ftdi_sio: Add 0x5050/0x0900 USB IDs (Papouch Quido USB 4/4)
Jason Wessel (4):

      kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping

      kgdb, x86_64: gdb serial has BX and DX reversed

      kgdb, x86_64: fix PS CS SS registers in gdb serial

      kgdboc,tty: Fix tty polling search to use name correctly
Jay Lan (1):

      [IA64] kexec fails on systems with blocks of uncached memory
Jean Delvare (2):

      i2c: Fix mailing lists in two MAINTAINERS entries

      ALSA: ASoC: Fix another cs4270 error path
Jeremy Katz (1):

      x86: disable apm on the olpc
Joerg Roedel (2):

      AMD IOMMU: set iommu sunc flag after command queuing

      AMD IOMMU: protect completion wait loop with iommu lock
Jonathan Steel (1):

      kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entry
Julia Lawall (1):

      9p: introduce missing kfree
Julien Brunel (1):

      9p: use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test
Kevin Lloyd (3):

      USB Storage: Sierra: Non-configurable TRU-Install

      USB Serial: Sierra: Device addition & version rev

      USB Serial: Sierra: Add MC8785 VID/PID
Kirill A. Shutemov (1):

      smb.h: do not include linux/time.h in userspace
Kristoffer Ericson (1):

      Input: jornada720_ts - fix build error ( LONG() usage )
Lachlan McIlroy (2):

      [XFS] Fix extent list corruption in xfs_iext_irec_compact_full().

      [XFS] Remove xfs_iext_irec_compact_full()
Liam Girdwood (1):

      ALSA: ASoC: maintainers - update email address for Liam Girdwood
Linus Torvalds (2):

      Fix NULL pointer dereference in proc_sys_compare

      Linux 2.6.27-rc8
Luis R. Rodriguez (1):

      ath9k: disable MIB interrupts to fix interrupt storm
Marc Dionne (1):

      x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online, fix
Marcel Holtmann (3):

      [Bluetooth] Fix I/O errors on MacBooks with Broadcom chips

      [Bluetooth] Fix wrong URB handling of btusb driver

      [Bluetooth] Fix USB disconnect handling of btusb driver
Marin Mitov (1):

      Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt: update for pci_dma_mapping_error() changes
Michael Kerrisk (1):

      sys_paccept: disable paccept() until API design is resolved
Márton Németh (1):

      cdrom: update ioctl documentation
Nick Piggin (1):

      mm: tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex
Oliver Neukum (1):

      USB: update of Documentation/usb/anchors.txt
Otavio Salvador (1):

      USB: serial: add ZTE CDMA Tech id to option driver
Peter Korsgaard (1):

      USB: fsl_usb2_udc: fix VDBG() format string
Rakib Mullick (1):

      sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
Ralf Baechle (2):

      [MIPS] IP27: Switch to dynamic interrupt routing avoding panic on error.

      Swarm: Fix crash due to missing initialization
Randy Dunlap (1):

      kernel-doc: allow structs whose members are all private
Ravikiran G Thirumalai (1):

      x86: fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load
Richard Nauber (1):

      USB: Fix the Nokia 6300 storage-mode.
Roland Dreier (1):

      IPoIB: Fix crash when path record fails after path flush
Sebastian Siewior (1):

      UBIFS: create the name of the background thread in every case
Senthil Balasubramanian (2):

      ath9k: connectivity is lost after Group rekeying is done

      ath9k: Fix IRQ nobody cared issue with ath9k
Sitsofe Wheeler (1):

      PCI: Fix pcie_aspm=force
Sven Wegener (1):

      i2c-dev: Return correct error code on class_create() failure
Takashi Iwai (2):

      ALSA: fix locking in snd_pcm_open*() and snd_rawmidi_open*()

      ALSA: remove unneeded power_mutex lock in snd_pcm_drop
Tejun Heo (7):

      9p: implement proper trans module refcounting and unregistration

      9p-trans_fd: fix trans_fd::p9_conn_destroy()

      9p-trans_fd: clean up p9_conn_create()

      9p-trans_fd: don't do fs segment mangling in p9_fd_poll()

      9p-trans_fd: fix and clean up module init/exit paths

      ide: note that IDE generic may prevent other drivers from attaching

      sata_nv: reinstate nv_hardreset() for non generic controllers
Thomas Gleixner (6):

      clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz

      x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online

      clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs

      clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device

      clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online

      x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines
Timur Tabi (1):

      ALSA: make the CS4270 driver a new-style I2C driver
Tony Murray (1):

      USB: Correct Sierra Wireless USB EVDO Modem Device ID
Uwe Kleine-König (1):

      i2c-powermac: Fix section for probe and remove functions
Wim Van Sebroeck (1):

      [WATCHDOG] unlocked_ioctl changes
Yasuyuki Kozakai (1):

      netfilter: ip6t_{hbh,dst}: Rejects not-strict mode on rule insertion
born.into.silence@gmail.com (1):

      wireless: zd1211rw: add device ID fix wifi dongle "trust nw-3100"
zippel@linux-m68k.org (2):

      kconfig: fix silentoldconfig

      kconfig: readd lost change count
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