Linus Torvalds has released the 7.4-rc2 prepatch and it will come as no surprise that it is a large one (" a big -rc2 to go with the largest ever -rc1 "). Much of the size was made up of some automated Coccinelle updates that were spread out all over the tree; once those are factored out, the rest looks fairly normal: When masking that noise out from the diffstat, the shape of it changes - not spread out over thousands of files any more. But it does not look unusual: a third is drivers (gpu, networking and sound account for most of it, but there's a bit of everything), another third is...

Source: LWN.net