A change of maintainership for linux-next

Stephen Rothwell, who has maintained the kernel's linux-next integrationtree from its inception, has announced hisretirement from that role:

I will be stepping down as Linux-Next maintainer on Jan 16, 2026.Mark Brown has generously volunteered to take up the challenge. Hehas helped in the past filling in when I have been unavailable, sohopefully knows what he is getting in to. I hope you will alltreat him with the same (or better) level of respect that I havereceived.

It has been a long but mostly interesting task and I hope it hasbeen helpful to others. It seems a long time since I read AndrewMorton's "I have a dream" email and decided that I could help outthere - little did I know what I was heading for.

Over the last two decades or so, the kernel's development process has evolvedfrom an unorganized mess with irregular releases to a smooth machine with anew release every nine or ten weeks. That would not have happened withoutlinux-next; thanks are due to Stephen for helping to make the currentprocess possible.