So the merge window had somewhat unusual timing with the holidays, andI was afraid that would affect stragglers in rc2, but honestly, thatdoesn't seem to have happened much. rc2 looks pretty normal.Were there some missing commits that missed the merge window? Yes. Butno more than usual. Things look pretty normal.What's a bit abnormal is that I'm traveling again, and so for me it'sa Monday release, but it's (intentionally) the usual "Sundayafternoon" release schedule back home. I'm trying to not surprisepeople too much.As to actual changes: all looks fairly normal. Yes, there's a fairnumber of perf tooling updates, so that certainly stands out in thediffstat, but if you ignore the tooling and just look at the kernel,it's about two thirds drivers (networking, gpu, block, scsi..), withthe rest being the usual mix of arch updates (ARM, RISC-V, x86, csky),with some filesystem (btrfs, cifs) and vm fixes.Go test, Linus 
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