Kernel prepatch 6.12-rc5 Linus has released https://lwn.net/Articles/995980/ for testing. rc5 looks perfectly normal, and maybe even on the small side of normal. The diffstat looks nice and flat too, with the exception of the removal of the da8xx fbdev driver due to it having been replaced by the tilcdc driver. And I'm sure we're all thinking the same thing: "What lovely descriptive driver names we have". https://lwn.net/Articles/995981/