The 3.16 merge window has closed
Linus Torvalds has released the 3.16-rc1
kernel prepatch, thus closing the merge window. In the end, Torvalds
picked up 11,364 non-merge commits for inclusion, making 3.16 the third
busiest merge window ever (after 3.15 and 3.10). "It also looks fairly usual from a statistics standpoint: about two
thirds of the changes are to drivers (and one third of *that* is to
staging), and half of the remainder is architecture updates (with arm
dominating, dts files leading - but there's mips, powerpc, x86 and
arm64 there too).

Outside of drivers and architecture updates, there's the usual mixture
of changes elsewhere: filesystems (mainly reiserfs, xfs, btrfs, nfs),
networking, "core" kernel (mm, locking, scheduler, tracing), and
tooling (perf and power, also new self-tests)."