Linux 4.6 rc1

So I'm closing the merge window a day early, partly because I havesome upcoming travel, but partly because this has actually been one ofthe bigger merge windows in a while, and if somebody was planning ontrying to sneak in any last-minute features, I really don't want tohear about it any more.On the whole, despite the size of the merge window, this was mostlypretty pain-free. There were fairly few conflicts, and the ARM treethat traditionally has had the most of them was really one of theeasiest experiences ever. Good job.Of course, to offset that, we did have some unusual filesystem issues,with both f2fs and Ceph pulls being scolded for messing up theirtrees, in both cases to try to make it easier for the merge, but inboth cases I really *really* want people to just worry about their owncode, not make changes to accommodate what happened outside theirtrees.But those were mainly about git maintenance issues, not the code itself..And while on the filesystem side, it might be worth noting that wealso have a new filesystem this time: orangefs. It's actually beenpending for a longish while, with the original pull request coming inlast August or so, but it got delayed this long due to input from Althat I think ended up making everybody much happier. The pull requestitself came in pretty late in the merge window, but I'm happy to haveit finally merged - the orangefs maintainers have been very responsiveto the issues that got brought up.But as usual, the *bulk* of the changes - by far - are just all themiscellaneous driver updates. So despite the filesystem work, driversaccount for about 2/3 of the bulk of the changes. It's all over:staging drivers, networking, drm, rdma, usb, media, sound - you nameit.Outside of drivers, the biggest remaining changes are as usual thearchitecture updates: ARM devicetree updates being a big chunk, butthere's other arm (and arm64) updates, together with x86, powerpc,s390, xtensa, and some m68k.The rest is generic networking, filesystem updates (in addition to thealready mentioned orangefs, f2fs and ceph stuff, there's also xfs,btrfs, ocfs2, ext4, and generic vfs updates). And core kernel work, aswell as doc updates and tooling updates.So quite a bit of work all over. The shortlog being much too large topost, I'm just appending my usual "merge log", which shows who Ipulled from along with a very short description. As always, the fullcredits are to be found in the git tree.Let's hope that a reasonably painfree merge window ends up translatingto an even more painfree calming down period, despite this being afairly big release.Please?                  Linus