[$] A look at the 4.14 development cycle

The 4.14 kernel, due in the first half of November, is moving into therelatively slow part of the development cycle as of this writing. The timeis thus ripe for a look at the changes that went into this kernel cycle andhow they got there. While 4.14 is a fairly typical kernel developmentcycle, there are a couple of aspects that stand out this time around.