It's Sunday afternoon, which means it's time for the usual release candidate.Things are fairly normal, although rc6 is a bit bigger than I wouldhave liked to see. There's no single reason for that, it's justvarious changes all over.Networking (both drivers and core) is perhaps the most noticeablepart, at roughly a quarter of the changes, but there's a little bit ofeverything in there outside of that: other drivers (gpu, dma, iio,sound, usb, misc..), the usual architecture updates (arm, mips, x86,powerpc), along with a few filesystem and core kernel updates. Andanother batch of selftest updates.So while I would have wished for less at this point, nothing in therelooks all that odd or scary. I think we're still solidly on track fora normal release. Linus 
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