Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.1-rc3

It's Sunday afternoon, so it must be time for an rc release.

I know I said last week that rc2 was unusually large. It turns out
that rc3 is almost exactly the same size. But at least for an rc3
release, that bigger size is a bit more normal: this is when people
are starting to find problems and send in fixes for them.

So while rc2 was just _way_ bigger than usual, rc3 is only a bit
larger than an average rc3 release is. But it's still on the largish
side. I hope that things start calming down, and we'll start seeing
the size of these rc's shrink. Please?

Unlike rc2, there's no one single reason for the bulk of the rc3
changes. They're pretty much all over, with the usual distribution -
drivers dominating (networking, gpu and sound are most noticeable, but
there's a little bit of everything).

Outside of drivers, tool updates stand out, with selftests, perf, and
the pm-graph tool all seeing a fair amount of changes.

And then we have the usual things: architecture updates, some
filesystem work, and core kernel fixes (mainly networking and mm).

Anyway, while it isn't small, nothing looks particularly worrisome or
strange, and I thin kyou can just scan the appended shortlog to get a
feel for the kinds of fixes we have here. Please do give it more
testing, and here's to hoping we'll start seeing the rc's shrink from
now on.

           Linus