So this is the biggest -rc1 in the last several years (perhaps ever) at least as far as counting commits go, even if not necessarily in actual lines (I didn't check the statistics on that).
Which was unexpected, because while linux-next was fairly big, it wasn't exceptionally so. I'm sure Stephen Rothwell will talk about the statistics of commits that weren't in -next, we'll see if that was the reason.. Anyway, despite the large number of commits, hopefully it's all boringly straigthforward. Sure. Now, even normally, there's no way to list all the changes, much less so when it's an unusually large -rc1. But I can do my "merge shortlog" again, and it's worth mentioning (again) that the name attributed to the merge is *not* necessarily the author of any of the code, it's literally just the person who emailed me the pull request. So you can see this as an approximation of "first-level maintainership" or something, although even that is somewhat misleading since some of these things are really done by groups and then there's one person who end up sending me the end result. But it's somewhat readable, and gives you a reasonable idea of what is going on. A better idea can be gotten by looking at git directly, especially since the merge commits often do contain a better description of what happened. Not that all submaintainers necessarily always send me that, but most of the merges actually do have human-readable background information. It's possible that I missed something. This really was a busier merge window than usual. Holler if so, Linus --- Al Viro: (7) VFS updates compat cleanup second round of VFS updates single_open() leak fixes more vfs updates more vfs fixes stray syscall bits Alasdair Kergon: (1) device-mapper updates Alex Elder: (1) Ceph changes Alex Williamson: (1) vfio updates Andrew Morton: (5) first batch of fixes second batch of fixes third batch of fixes IPC cleanup and scalability patches more incoming Anton Vorontsov: (2) battery updates pstore update Arnd Bergmann: (5) ARM SoC platform updates (part 2) ARM SoC platform updates (part 3) ARM SoC device tree updates (part 2) ARM SoC late cleanups late ARM Exynos multiplatform changes Ben Myers: (2) xfs update xfs update (#2) Benjamin Herrenschmidt: (2) powerpc update powerpc updates Bjorn Helgaas: (2) PCI updates PCI updates Borislav Petkov: (1) two small EDAC fixes Bruce Fields: (1) nfsd fixes Bryan Wu: (1) LED subsystem updates Catalin Marinas: (2) arm64 update arm64 update Chris Ball: (1) MMC update Chris Mason: (1) btrfs update Chris Metcalf: (2) tile arch changes tile update Chris Zankel: (1) xtensa updates Dave Airlie: (1) drm updates David Kleikamp: (1) jfs fixes David Miller: (5) networking updates sparc updates networking fixes networking fixes networking update David Teigland: (1) dlm update David Woodhouse: (2) MTD update misc fixes Dmitry Torokhov: (1) input updates Eric Paris: (1) audit changes Geert Uytterhoeven: (1) m68k update Gleb Natapov: (2) kvm updates kvm fixes Grant Likely: (2) GPIO changes removal of GENERIC_GPIO Greg Kroah-Hartman: (5) char/misc driver update driver core update staging driver tree update tty/serial driver update USB patches Greg Ungerer: (1) m68knommu updates Guenter Roeck: (1) hwmon update Helge Deller: (1) parisc updates Herbert Xu: (1) crypto update Ingo Molnar: (18) locking changes RCU updates perf updates scheduler changes SMP/hotplug changes core timer updates extable dmesg fixlet x86 cleanups x86 cpuid changes x86 debug update perparatory x86 kasrl changes x86 mm changes x86 paravirt update x86 platform changes x86 RAS changes scheduler fixes perf fixes 'full dynticks' support J Bruce Fields: (1) nfsd changes Jaegeuk Kim: (1) f2fs updates James "Jej B" Bottomley: (2) first round of SCSI updates second SCSI update James Hogan: (1) arch/metag update James Morris: (1) security subsystem update Jan Kara: (1) ext3/jbd fixes Jean Delvare: (1) hwmon update Jeff Garzik: (1) libata update Jens Axboe: (2) block core updates block driver updates Jiri Kosina: (4) trivial tree updates HID updates fixup for trivial branch HID fixes Joerg Roedel: (1) IOMMU updates Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: (2) Xen updates Xen bug-fixes Len Brown: (1) idle update Linus Walleij: (2) pinctrl update pinctrl fixes Mark Brown: (3) regmap updates regulator updates spi updates Martin Schwidefsky: (2) s390 update more s390 updates Matthew Garrett: (1) x86 platform drivers Matthew Wilcox: (1) NVMe driver update Mauro Carvalho Chehab: (3) media update edac fixes omap3isp clk support Michael Tsirkin: (2) vhost cleanups and fixes more vhost fixes Michael Turquette: (1) clock framework update Michal Marek: (3) kbuild changes kconfig updates misc kbuild updates Michal Simek: (1) microblaze updates Michel Lespinasse: (1) rwsem optimizations Miklos Szeredi: (1) fuse updates my IPC branch: (1) ipc fixes and cleanups NeilBrown: (1) md fixes Nicholas Bellinger: (1) SCSI target update Ohad Ben-Cohen: (2) rpmsg changes remoteproc update Olof Johansson: (10) ARM SoC non-critical fixes ARM SoC cleanup ARM SoC device-tree updates ARM SoC platform updates ARM SoC multiplatform updates ARM SoC driver changes ARM SoC pinctrl changes for Renesas ARM platform specific firmware interfaces ARM SoC board specific changes (part 1) ARM SoC fixes and straggler patches Pekka Enberg: (1) slab changes Peter Anvin: (2) x86/efi changes x86 fixes Rafael J Wysocki: (1) power management and ACPI updates Rafael Wysocki: (1) ACPICA fixes Ralf Baechle: (1) MIPS updates Richard Kuo: (2) Hexagon fixes Hexagon fixes Roland Dreier: (1) InfiniBand/RDMA changes Russell King: (1) ARM updates Rusty Russell: (2) virtio & lguest updates mudule updates Samuel Ortiz: (1) MFD update Sarah Sharp: (1) ReportingBugs rewrite Stefan Richter: (1) firewure updates Stefano Stabellini: (1) ARM Xen SMP updates Steve French: (1) CIFS fixes Steven Miao: (1) blackfin updates Steven Rostedt: (4) tracing updates ktest update localmodconfig changes tracing/kprobes update Steven Whitehouse: (1) GFS2 updates Sumit Semwal: (1) dma-buf updates Takashi Iwai: (2) sound updates sound fixes Ted Ts'o: (1) ext4 updates Tejun Heo: (5) percpu patch async update workqueue updates cgroup updates libata maintainership change Thierry Reding: (1) pwm changes Tomi Valkeinen: (1) fbdev updates Tony Luck: (2) ia64 fixes trivial pstore update Trond Myklebust: (2) NFS client bugfixes and cleanups more NFS client bugfixes Tyler Hicks: (1) eCryptfs update Vineet Gupta: (2) ARC port updates second set of arc arch updates Vinod Koul: 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