Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.16-rc6

So I had a little scare this week, noticing some odd instability on
Thursday, and basically then lost a day to trying to figure that whole
thing out. The fix ended up being a simple revert in the end, but for
a while there I was getting "Uh-oh, we're in trouble" vibes, because I
had trouble reproducing the issue consistently, and it wasn't at all
obvious even what subsystem had broken things.

So I was flailing around blaming everybody and their pet hamster,
because for a while it looked like a drm issue and then a netlink
problem (it superficially coincided with separate issues with both of
those subsystems).

But I did eventually figure out how to trigger it reliably and then it
bisected nicely, and a couple of days have passed, and I'm feeling
much better about the release again. We're back on track, and despite
that little scare, I think we're in good shape.

Below you'll find the shortlog for the week - no real pattern stands
out. It's random fixes spread out fairly evenly, so we've got a bit of
everything: drivers, arch fixes, filesystems, networking, tooling,
documentation.

We've got a couple more weeks to go for this release, let's hope they
go more smoothly than the last one. But please do keep testing,

                Linus