Linux 4.17 rc1

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window was pretty normal andis now closed.This does not seem to be shaping up to be a particularly big release,and there seems to be nothing particularly special about it. The mostspecial thing that happened is purely numerology: we've passed the sixmillion git objects mark, and that is reason enough to call the nextkernel 5.0. Except I probably won't, because I don't want to be toopredictable. The version numbers are meaningless, which should meanthat they don't even follow silly numerological rules - even if v3.0and v4.0 happened to be at the 2M and 4M mark respectively.But v5.0 will happen some day. And it should be meaningless. You havebeen warned.