Hi Linus, Here are 749 patches for ARM SoCs for this merge window, a bit less than average this time. We support 29 new machines but all five SoCs we add are in a family that is already supported.
Out of 165 developers contributing at least one patch, the most active by number of patches are: 46 Javier Martinez Canillas 42 Sergei Shtylyov 29 Linus Walleij 25 Hans de Goede 22 Krzysztof Kozlowski 19 Vladimir Zapolskiy 17 Patrice Chotard 16 Grzegorz Jaszczyk 14 Philipp Zabel 14 Jon Mason 14 Jisheng Zhang 13 Vladimir Barinov While according to Signed-off-by lines we get: 87 Simon Horman 86 Shawn Guo 71 Tony Lindgren 60 Maxime Ripard 46 Javier Martinez Canillas 45 Kevin Hilman 44 Andy Gross 42 Sergei Shtylyov 40 Gregory CLEMENT 35 Heiko Stuebner 34 Krzysztof Kozlowski The dirstat shows that once more the ARM32 dts changes dominate the overall changes, surprisingly clearly this time showing how much more work went into 32-bit platforms compared to 64-bit platforms: 2.1% Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ 52.3% arch/arm/boot/dts/ 2.9% arch/arm/mach-clps711x/ 3.0% arch/arm/mach-imx/ 4.2% arch/arm/mach-omap2/ 9.9% arch/arm/mach-realview/ 4.2% arch/arm/ 2.2% arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/ 9.2% arch/arm64/boot/dts/ 2.9% drivers/perf/ 5.5% drivers/ 742 files changed, 29317 insertions(+), 16385 deletions(-) Ignoring dts and driver churn, we can see a nice cleanup, removing almost 9000 lines of old platform code: 12.2% arch/arm/mach-clps711x/ 12.7% arch/arm/mach-imx/ 1.4% arch/arm/mach-integrator/ 17.6% arch/arm/mach-omap2/ 1.4% arch/arm/mach-pxa/ 41.6% arch/arm/mach-realview/ 2.3% arch/arm/mach-uniphier/ 1.1% arch/arm/plat-orion/ 1.2% arch/arm/plat-pxa/include/plat/ 3.1% arch/arm/plat-pxa/ 4.6% arch/arm/ 172 files changed, 698 insertions(+), 9468 deletions(-) Arnd