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    Phoronix: Linux 5.2 Staging Adds New Subsystem/Drivers Yet Is 111k Lines of Code Lighter

    Linus Torvalds happily pulled in the staging subsystem updates today for the Linux 5.2 kernel. While new functionality was added to staging including two new "subsystems", the overall net change for the lines of code is being 111,641 lines of code less...

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    I love a smaller code base.

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      phoronix
      Once again. Will you write a follow up to the performance regressions you found on Linux 5.0? Personally I am interested to see how much overhead we are adding with each new release and whether it is justified in some way or it is a bug.

      Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite

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