Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.16-rc5

So everything looks fairly normal. This rc5 is perhaps a bit bigger
than usual, but it's not like it's breaking any records. I blame
people trying to get stuff done before the holidays, and/or just
random timing effects.

Anyway, I do expect things to calm down over the next couple of weeks,
but we'll see.

As to rc5, the patch is dominated by drivers (network, sound, hid,
rdma, usb... and a lot of other random things) and selftest updates
(bpf, kvm and networking).

The rest is fairly random - filesystems (cifs, btrfs, tracefs), core
kernel and networking. Some fixups to the new damon virtual address
space monitoring code.

Shortlog appended.

Do give it a good testing - with the holidays coming up, things are
probably going to slow down both on the development and testing front,
and as a result I expect that I will also extend the rc series by
another week not because it's necessarily needed (too early to tell,
but doesn't feel that way), but simply because nobody will want to
open the next merge window immediately in the new year.

Anyway, that's the plan right now (based on previous years where we've
done the same), but let's see how this all goes.

                 Linus