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Merge Window

The roughly two-week period after a release when Linus pulls new features from subsystem maintainers into mainline. Defined in the The Linux Kernel entry of the archive.

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LKMLLoadable ModuleLTSMainlineMonolithic KernelRelease Candidate (-rc)Subsystem Maintainersyscall