Oh well, the "all the rc's have been nice and small this release round" thing definitely didn't continue all the way.
It's not like rc5 is *huge*, but it definitely isn't the nice andsmall one I was hoping for. There's nothing in partiocular that looksvery worrisome, and it may well just be random timing - the rc sizesdo fluctuate a lot depending on just which subsystem gets synced upthat particular rc, and we may just have hit that "everybody happenedto sync up this week" case.Anyway, rc5 is our biggest rc this release (obviously not countingrc1, which contains all of the the merge window). And it definitelydoes have stuff all over: we've got driver updates (gpu, networking,scsi, block layer and sound are the biggest, but there's stuff allover), we've got arch updates (arm[64], powerpc, sparc, x86), andwe've got filesystems (btrfs, ext4, and unusually several ufs fixesthanks to recent bug reporting activity).But we _also_ have various documentation yupdates, generic networking,some key handling fixes, and perf and kvm fixes.So it really isn't one thing, it's just a lot of different small stuff.And it's not like it's actually unreasonably big, it mainly stands outbecause the 4.12 release cycle so far has been fairly calm.Anyway, I really hope this was just a random timing fluke. Partly Ihope that because of just general wishes for releases to calm down,but in particular I will be traveling the next week+, and while I'llhave internet and my trusty laptop, I was hoping that things would becalm while I'm off gallivanting around the world.Of course, maybe it will be extra calm exactly _because_ people gottheir patches out of the way. I can hope.Anyway, go out and test, Linus