[$] The rest of the 6.8 merge window

Linus Torvalds was able to release 6.8-rc1
and close the 6.8 merge window on time despite losing power to his home for
most of a week. He noted that this merge window is 'maybe a bit smaller
than usual', but 12,239 non-merge changesets found their way into the
mainline, so it's not that small. About 8,000 of those changes were
merged since the first-half summary was
written; the second half saw a lot of device-driver updates, but there
were other interesting changes as well.