Two weeks have passed, it's Sunday afternoon, and the merge window has closed.

Nothing really stands out - except for the fact that it's big. It's
not the biggest rc1 we've ever had, but it's certainly up there, at
least in number of commits.

And I don't think that surprises anybody any more. It's all the same
pattern we've been seeing for a while now.

It's also big as an actual diff, and the reason for *that* is not
surprising either: this is yet another one of those releases with a
big AMD GPU register dump. This time it's the AMD DCN6 register
headers. They're huge. As usual. That's what you get when you dump all
the hardware definitions as C header #defines. There's also the
accompanying code for the new gen. All in all, that AMD GPU code and
header dump accounts for about a third of the whole rc1 patch.

But if you just mask out that big chunk, things look pretty normal,
and this merge window didn't feel that different from most of them
despite being large. I made it unnecessarily hard for myself by being
a grade A nincompoop and doing a system upgrade in the middle, and
then having to chase down an issue that caused, but that was entirely
on me. I knew I shouldn't have done it, but I just naively went
"nothing will go wrong". And hey, it was all good in the end, I just
made this merge window harder for myself than I should have.

Let's hope the rest of this release will go smoothly. And be small and
uneventful. But who am I kidding? It almost certainly won't be small,
but I can always hope.

                Linus

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