[$] The first half of the 4.14 merge window

As of this writing, just over 8,000 non-merge changesets have been pulledinto the mainline kernel repository for the 4.14 development cycle. Inother words, it looks like the pace is not slowing down for this cycleeither. The merge window is not yet done, but quite a few significantchanges have been merged so far. Read on for a summary of the mostinteresting changes entering the mainline in the first half of this mergewindow.