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The 6.1-rc7 kernel prepatch has been
released for testing.

There is really nothing here that makes me at all worried, except
that it’s just a bit more than I’m comfortable with. It should just
have slowed down more by now.

As a result, I’m now pretty sure that this is going to be one of
those “we’ll have an extra week and I’ll make an rc8”
releases. Which then in turn means that now the next merge window
will be solidly in the holiday season.