Linux 5.3 rc7

So this goes out on Monday morning rather than my usual Sundayafternoon schedule, simply because I was away from a keyboard most ofSunday. It happens.Partly because of that, I got a couple of pull requests (networking,usb, misc/char) that would have missed this rc with the normal timing,and it's a bit bigger as a result. Not huge, but considering how quietthe beginning of the week was, it's definitely noticeable, and the oneextra day added about 25% to the size of the rc.That's not enough for me to go "uhhuh, uncomfortably much this late inthe rc game" but I also happened to look at the calendar last week,and it dawned on me that I have the kernel summit travel coming up,and if I do the usual release cadence, I'd be on the road during theworst time (for me) of the merge window - the first five days.So I do suspect that with my timing (and a number of other developersare probably going to be traveling for LPC and KS too) I'll just makean rc8 even if it turns this Labor Day week ends up being very quietand there might not be any _technical_ reason to delay the release.NOTE! If you are a submaintainer, and have your pull request all readyto go for 5.4, you should - as always - feel free to just send itearly. I already have one 5.4 pull request in my inbox, and I muchprefer the early ones over the late ones. So if you were planning forthe normal cadence, just go on with your life, and ignore the likelyone-week release delay due to conference travel.As to what happened in rc7 itself: the shortlog is appended, andnothing huge stands out. The diffstat is mostly fairly flat, whichmeans it's a lot of small changes, with just a few blips: rxpc,openvswitch, cifssmb cleanups, turbostat utility update, and someembargoed hw issue process documentation.But the bulk of it is small fixes all over: drivers, networking, archupdates, documentation, filesystems..Would I have been happier with things being even calmer? Sure. But itall looks pretty normal.So go forth and test,                 Linus