Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.19-rc7

It's a Sunday afternoon, I wonder what that might mean..

Another week, another rc. We obviously had that whole "Retbleed"
thing, and it does show up in both the diffstat and the shortlog, and
rc7 is definitely bigger than usual.

And also as usual, when we've had one of those embargoed hw issues
pending, the patches didn't get the open development, and then as a
result missed all the usual sanity checking by all the automation
build and test infrastructure we have. So no surprise - there's been
various small fixup patches afterwards too for some corner cases.

That said, last week there were two other development trees that
independently also asked for an extension, so 5.19 will be one of
those releases that have an additional rc8 next weekend before the
final release. We had some last-minute btrfs reverts, and there's also
a pending issue with a intel GPU firmware.

When it rains it pours.

Not that things really look all that bad. I think we've got the
retbleed fallout all handled (knock wood), and the btrfs reverts are
in place. And the Intel GPU firmware issue seems to have a patch
pending too (or we'll just revert). So it's not like we have any huge
issues, but an extra week is most definitely called for.

          Linus