Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.17-rc3

I'm still traveling for family reasons, so slightly unusual timing for
rc3, but it's (barely) afternoon here on the East coast, so the usual
Sunday afternoon schedule technically still holds.

As suspected, rc3 ends up being a bit larger than usual, to balance
out the tiny rc2. Yes, 3.17 seems to be generally in pretty good
shape, but nobody *really* believed that it was as good as that tiny
rc2 would make it seem.

And while rc3 is on the larger side, it's by no means anything
outrageously so, it's well within the normal parameters.

The diffstat looks fairly normal too: about half drivers (spread all
over, we've got a bit of everything, but mellanox mlx5 stands out if
you want to pick out any particular area). There's a fair chunk of
added selftests and some more Rust support, and then a random
collection of fixes all over: architecture code, filesystems, VM and
core networking.

Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle,
nothing stands out. Please keep testing,

             Linus