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It's been a week since -rc5 (perhaps not counting timezone changes),so -rc6 is out now.I have to say, -rc6 is bigger than I'd like it to be. I'd really likethings to calm down by rc6, because usually I aim for rc7 to beroughly the last rc in the series, and that means that I don't want tosee hundreds of patches. But hundreds of patches it is. Not good.That said, I'm hoping that the bulk of this was due to Davem catchingthe flu and the networking pull being delayed by that. Because whilethere's been a few other worrisome patterns (x86 changes, EFI stuffetc), it is largely true that a lot of the rc6 patches werenetwork-related.So I'm hoping that rc7 would be better quite quite on its own.But since I don't trust you sneaky bastards, I have a CleverPlan(tm)to make *sure* that rc7 will be better and much smaller. That planlargely depends on me being unreachable for the next week due to thefact that there is no internet under water.Paraphrasing the Alien films: "Under water, nobody can read your email".And once I dry off enough, I'm going to be really pissy ("And how isthat different from the normal Linus, pray tell?") if people send mepull requests that I think you shouldn't have sent. There will becursing. More cursing than normal. Don't send me stuff that doesn'tfix major security issues, big user-reported regressions, or nastyoopses. Seriously. Just don't.So think twice - or thrice - before sending me patches or a pullrequest for -rc7. You need to have some seriously good reasons fordoing so, and you need to state those reasons very clearly. And Idon't just mean for the pull request in general, I mean for everysingle patch in it. So don't ask me to pull three patches, because_one_ of the three patches fixes a bad regression. Because while I cansee myself doing an rc8 (and I may just have to), I'm not going toenjoy it much. So please help make sure that rc7 really is tiny andonly contains fixed that absolutely *have* to go in.In other words, "It fixes a bug" just isn't good enough. The bug needsto be something that actually matters. Linus