Hi all, As usual, the executive friendly graph is at http://neuling.org/linux-next-size.html :-) (No merge commits counted, next-20220802 was the first linux-next after the merge window opened.) Commits in v6.0-rc1 (relative to v5.19): 13543 Commits in next-20220802: 13109 Commits with the same SHA1: 12468 Commits with the same patch_id: 309 (1) Commits with the same subject line: 12 (1) (1) not counting those in the lines above. So commits in -rc1 that were in next-20220802: 12789 94% Some breakdown of the list of extra commits (relative to next-20220802) in -rc1: Top ten first word of commit summary: 95 perf 33 dt-bindings 30 tools 25 net 24 kvm 23 virtio_ring 19 riscv 19 cxl 19 ceph 18 bpf Top ten authors: 43 xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com 25 irogers@google.com 17 krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org 15 conor.dooley@microchip.com 14 leo.yan@linaro.org 13 xiubli@redhat.com 13 dan.j.williams@intel.com 11 zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com 11 namhyung@kernel.org 10 snitzer@kernel.org Top ten commiters: 107 acme@redhat.com 78 mst@redhat.com 58 kuba@kernel.org 43 palmer@rivosinc.com 26 pbonzini@redhat.com 24 idryomov@gmail.com 20 dan.j.williams@intel.com 18 ast@kernel.org 17 tiwai@suse.de 17 len.brown@intel.com There are also 320 commits in next-20220802 that didn't make it into v6.0-rc1. Top ten first word of commit summary: 29 tools 27 thermal 22 arm 20 mm 20 fs 15 arm64 14 soc 13 dt-bindings 10 rust 9 btrfs Top ten authors: 29 paulmck@kernel.org 19 ojeda@kernel.org 18 zokeefe@google.com 11 marex@denx.de 10 daniel.lezcano@linexp.org 8 windhl@126.com 8 wedsonaf@google.com 7 iangelak@fb.com 7 daniel.lezcano@linaro.org 7 broonie@kernel.org Top ten commiters: 43 daniel.lezcano@linaro.org 32 ojeda@kernel.org 32 akpm@linux-foundation.org 29 paulmck@kernel.org 18 almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com 13 geert+renesas@glider.be 12 alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com 11 broonie@kernel.org 9 srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org 8 treding@nvidia.com -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell