Linux 5.14-rc2

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Often rc2 ends up being fairly small and calm - either because people
take a breather after the merge window, or because it takes a while
for people to start reporting bugs.
Not so this time.
At least in pure number of commits, this is the biggest rc2 we've had
during the 5.x cycle. Whether that is meaningful or not, who knows -
it might be just random timing effects, or it might indicate that this
release is not going to be one of those nice and calm ones. We'll just
have to wait and see.
But it's not like anything looks super-scary, and it really is too
early to start worrying about it, so let's just say that rc2's are
usually smaller than this, and just leave it at that.
The changes are a bit all over the map, with gpu and networking driver
fixes accounting for about half of the patch. But some of that is -
again - AMD GPU header file noise, so that may not be all that
important. The rest tends to be a mix of things: filesystem fixes,
networking, perf tool and selftest fixes, and various random noise.
While being larger than usual, it's by no means _huge_, and anybody
who cares about the details can easily scan the appended shortlog.
Linus
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