[$] Statistics from the 4.17 kernel development cycle

The 4.17 kernel appears to be on track for a June 3 release, barring anunlikely last-minute surprise. So the time has come for the usual look atsome development statistics for this cycle. While 4.17 is a normal cyclefor the most part, it does have one characteristic of note: it is the thirdkernel release ever to be smaller (in terms of lines of code) than itspredecessor.