[$] The rest of the 6.8 merge window

Linus Torvalds was able to release 6.8-rc1and close the 6.8 merge window on time despite losing power to his home formost of a week. He noted that this merge window is "maybe a bit smallerthan usual", but 12,239 non-merge changesets found their way into themainline, so it's not that small. About 8,000 of those changes weremerged since the first-half summary waswritten; the second half saw a lot of device-driver updates, but therewere other interesting changes as well.