[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

The 7.0 merge windowclosed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total,3,893 of which came in afterthe article covering the first half of the mergewindow. The changes in the second half were weighted toward bug fixes overnew features, which is usual. There were still a handful of surprises, however, including89 separate tiny code-cleanup changes from different people for the rtl8723bsdriver, a number thatsurprisedGreg Kroah-Hartman. It's unusual for a WiFi-chip driver to receive that muchattention, especially a staging driver that is not yet ready for general use.