[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

The 7.0 merge window

closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total,
3,893 of which came in after
the article covering the first half of the merge
window. The changes in the second half were weighted toward bug fixes over
new features, which is usual. There were still a handful of surprises, however, including
89 separate tiny code-cleanup changes from different people for the rtl8723bs
driver, a number that
surprised
Greg Kroah-Hartman. It’s unusual for a WiFi-chip driver to receive that much
attention, especially a staging driver that is not yet ready for general use.