Linux 4.9 Released!

So Linux 4.9 is out, and the merge window for 4.10 is thus open.With the extra week for 4.9, the timing for the merge window isobviously a bit awkward, and it technically closes in two weeks onChristmas Day. But that is a pure technicality, because I willcertainly stop pulling on the 23rd at the latest, and if I get ropedinto xmas food prep, even that date might be questionable.I could extend the merge window rather than cut it short, but I'm notgoing to. I suspect we all want a nice calm winter break, so if yourstuff isn't ready to be merged early, the solution is to just notmerge it yet at all, and wait for 4.11. Just so you all know (Ialready bcc'd the main merge window suspects in a separate mailinglast week, I'm just repeating myself here to avoid anybody beingconfused about timing).Anyway, back to 4.9 itself.I'm pretty sure this is the biggest release we've ever had, at leastin number of commits. If you look at the number of lines changed,we've had bigger releases in the past, but they have tended to be dueto specific issues (v4.2 got a lot of lines from the AMD GPU registerdefinition files, for example, and we've had big re-organizations thatcaused a lot of lines in the past: v3.2 was big due to staging, v3.7had the automated uapi header file disintegration, etc). In contrast,4.9 is just big.Admittedly a chunk of that is the new greybus staging support, butthat really isn't the bulk of it - it's just another small detail inthe overall "yes, v4.9 is big" picture.Other than just the size, 4.9 looks fairly normal. A bit over twothirds drivers (staging, GPU and networking are the bulk of it, butit's all over), with the rest looking fairly normal too: arch updates,documentation, generic networking, filesystems..The shortlog (16k+ commits, with another 1100 merge commits to roundthings out) is obviously much too big to put here, and wouldn't belegible anyway. So as is my wont, I'm appending just the log of mymerges.                   Linus