Hmm. Things look fairly normal.Two thirds of the 4.17-rc4 patch is drivers, which sounds about right.Media, networking, rdma, input, nvme, usb. A little bit of everything, inother words.There's the usual architecture suspects, and some othe rcore updates too(mainly networking, but some filesystem fixes too).Go out and test. The shortlog below gives you an overview of the exactdetails if you care, Linus 
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