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This is the 4.4.88 stable release

This is the 3.18.71 stable release

sound fixes for 4.14-rc1

Most of the commits are trivial cleanup patches, while one commit
is a significant fix for the race at ALSA sequencer that was spotted
by syzkaller.

This is the 4.9.49 stable release

This is the 4.12.12 stable release

This is the 4.13.1 stable release

wireless-drivers fixes for 4.14

Few fixes to regressions introduced in the last one or two releases.
The iwlwifi fix is for a regression reported by Linus.

rtlwifi

* fix two antenna selection related bugs

iwlwifi

* fix regression with older firmwares

brcmfmac

* workaround firmware crash for bcm4345

drm/i915 fixes for v4.14-rc1

media updates for v4.14-rc1

Getting started with v4.15 features:

- Cannonlake workarounds (Rodrigo, Oscar)
- Infoframe refactoring and fixes to enable infoframes for DP (Ville)
- VBT definition updates (Jani)
- Sparse warning fixes (Ville, Chris)
- Crtc state usage fixes and cleanups (Ville)
- DP vswing, pre-emph and buffer translation refactoring and fixes (Rodrigo)
- Prevent IPS from interfering with CRC capture (Ville, Marta)
- Enable Mesa to advertise ARB_timer_query (Nanley)
- Refactor GT number into intel_device_info (Lionel)
- Avoid eDP DP AUX CH timeouts harder (Manasi)
- CDCLK check improvements (Ville)
- Restore GPU clock boost on missed pageflip vblanks (Chris)
- Fence register reservation API for vGPU (Changbin)
- First batch of CCS fixes (Ville)
- Finally, numerous GEM fixes, cleanups and improvements (Chris)

Back from a long absence, so we have a number of things:
 * a remain-on-channel fix from Avi
 * hwsim TX power fix from Beni
 * null-PTR dereference with iTXQ in some rare configurations (Chunho)
 * 40 MHz custom regdomain fixes (Emmanuel)
 * look at right place in HT/VHT capability parsing (Igor)
 * complete A-MPDU teardown properly (Ilan)
 * Mesh ID Element ordering fix (Liad)
 * avoid tracing warning in ht_dbg() (Sharon)
 * fix print of assoc/reassoc (Simon)
 * fix encrypted VLAN with iTXQ (myself)
 * fix calling context of TX queue wake (myself)
 * fix a deadlock with ath10k aggregation (myself)

This is the 4.12.11 stable release

This is the 4.9.48 stable release

This is the 4.4.87 stable release

This is the 3.18.70 stable release

DeviceTree updates for 4.14:

- Convert more DT code to use of_property_read_* API.

- Improve DT overlay support when adding multiple overlays.

- Convert printk's to %pOF format specifiers. Most went via subsystem
  trees, but picked up the remaining orphans.

- Correct unittests to use preferred "okay" for "status" property value.

- Add a KASLR seed property.

- Vendor prefixes for Mellanox, Theobroma System, Adaptrum, Moxa.

- Fix modalias buffer handling.

- Clean-up of include paths for building dtbs.

- Add bindings for amc6821, isl1208, tsl2x7x, srf02, and srf10 devices.

- Add nvmem bindings for MediaTek MT7623 and MT7622 SoC.

- Add compatible string for Allwinner H5 Mali-450 GPU.

- Fix links to old OpenFirmware docs with new mirror on devicetree.org.

- Remove status property from binding doc examples.

sound updates for 4.14-rc1

We have touched quite a lot of files but with fewer changes at this
cycle; as you can see, most of changes are trivial fixes, especially
constification patches.  Among the massive attacks by constification
gangs, we had a few core changes (mostly for ASoC core), as well the
fixes and the updates by major vendors.  Some highlights are below:

ALSA core:
- Fix possible races in control API user-TLV codes
- Small cleanup of PCM core

ASoC:
- Continued work for componentization; still half-baked, but we're
  certainly progressing
- Use of devres for jack detection GPIOs, rather as a cleanup
- Jack detection support for Qualcomm MSM8916
- Support for Allwinner H3, Cirrus Logic CS43130, Intel Kabylake
  systems with RT5663, Realtek RT274, TI TLV320AIC32x6 and Wolfson
  WM8523

This is the bulk of the GPIO changes for the v4.14 cycle:

Core changes
- Allow the GPIO irqchip to allocate IRQs dynamically. This is
  an important change on systems where only a restricted number
  of IRQs, lesser than the number of GPIO lines, can be utilized.
  Now we can allocate these on a first-come-first-served basis
  instead of hogging up valuable IRQ lines.
- Serious fix-up of the kerneldoc documentation and inclusion
  into the kerneldoc builds.
- Pulled in the IRQ simulator from the IRQ core tree and use
  this in the GPIO mockup driver for exhaustive testing of
  interrupt abilities.

New drivers
- New driver for ThunderX and OCTEON-TX. This is especially
  interesting as it picks up improvements from the IRQ core that
  allow us to handle fasteoi ACKs upwards in a hierarchy when
  there are IRQ flag latches on several levels in a hierarchy.
  Very interesting work here.
- New subdriver for Renesas R-Car r8a7745 (RZ/G1E).

Misc
- Several fixes and improvements for Xilinx Zynq GPIO.
- Support an enablement GPIO for the 74x164 GPIO.
- Switch a bunch of chips to use devres to allocate irq
  descriptors.
- A bunch of constification fixes.

Device properties framework updates for v4.14-rc1

 - Introduce fwnode operations for all of the separate types of
   "firmware nodes" that can be handled by the device properties
   framework and drop the type field from struct fwnode_handle
   (Sakari Ailus, Arnd Bergmann).

 - Make the device properties framework use const fwnode arguments
   where possible (Sakari Ailus).

 - Add a helper for the consolidated handling of node references
   to the device properties framework (Sakari Ailus).

 - Switch over the ACPI part of the device properties framework
   to the new UUID API (Andy Shevchenko).

ACPI updates for v4.14-rc1

 - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20170728
   including:
   * Alias operator handling update (Bob Moore).
   * Deferred resolution of reference package elements (Bob Moore).
   * Support for the _DMA method in walk resources (Bob Moore).
   * Tables handling update and support for deferred table
     verification (Lv Zheng).
   * Update of SMMU models for IORT (Robin Murphy).
   * Compiler and disassembler updates (Alex James, Erik Schmauss,
     Ganapatrao Kulkarni, James Morse).
   * Tools updates (Erik Schmauss, Lv Zheng).
   * Assorted minor fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore, Kees Cook,
     Lv Zheng, Shao Ming).

 - Rework the initialization of non-wakeup GPEs with method handlers
   in order to address a boot crash on some systems with Thunderbolt
   devices connected at boot time where we miss an early hotplug
   event due to a delay in GPE enabling (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Rework the handling of PCI bridges when setting up ACPI-based
   device wakeup in order to avoid disabling wakeup for bridges
   prematurely (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Consolidate Apple DMI checks throughout the tree, add support for
   Apple device properties to the device properties framework and
   use these properties for the handling of I2C and SPI devices on
   Apple systems (Lukas Wunner).

 - Add support for _DMA to the ACPI-based device properties lookup
   code and make it possible to use the information from there to
   configure DMA regions on ARM64 systems (Lorenzo Pieralisi).

 - Fix several issues in the APEI code, add support for exporting
   the BERT error region over sysfs and update APEI MAINTAINERS
   entry with reviewers information (Borislav Petkov, Dongjiu Geng,
   Loc Ho, Punit Agrawal, Tony Luck, Yazen Ghannam).

 - Fix a potential initialization ordering issue in the ACPI EC
   driver and clean it up somewhat (Lv Zheng).

 - Update the ACPI SPCR driver to extend the existing XGENE 8250
   workaround in it to a new platform (m400) and to work around
   an Xgene UART clock issue (Graeme Gregory).

 - Add a new utility function to the ACPI core to support using
   ACPI OEM ID / OEM Table ID / Revision for system identification
   in blacklisting or similar and switch over the existing code
   already using this information to this new interface (Toshi Kani).

 - Fix an xpower PMIC issue related to GPADC reads that always return
   0 without extra pin manipulations (Hans de Goede).

 - Add statements to print debug messages in a couple of places in
   the ACPI core for easier diagnostics (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Clean up the ACPI processor driver slightly (Colin Ian King,
   Hanjun Guo).

 - Clean up the ACPI x86 boot code somewhat (Andy Shevchenko).

 - Add a quirk for Dell OptiPlex 9020M to the ACPI backlight
   driver (Alex Hung).

 - Assorted fixes, cleanups and updates related to ACPI (Amitoj Kaur
   Chawla, Bhumika Goyal, Frank Rowand, Jean Delvare, Punit Agrawal,
   Ronald Tschalär, Sumeet Pawnikar).