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This is the 3.10.101 stable release

media updates for v4.6-rc1

regulator: Updates for v4.6

This has been an extremely quiet release for the regulator API, aside
from bugfixes and small enhancements the only thing that really stands
out are the new drivers for Action Semiconductors ACT8945A, HiSilicon
HI665x, and the Maxim MAX20024 and MAX77620.

Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1

 - Redesign of cpufreq governors and the intel_pstate driver to
   make them use callbacks invoked by the scheduler to trigger CPU
   frequency evaluation instead of using per-CPU deferrable timers
   for that purpose (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Reorganization and cleanup of cpufreq governor code to make it
   more straightforward and fix some concurrency problems in it
   (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar).

 - Cleanup and improvements of locking in the cpufreq core (Viresh
   Kumar).

 - Assorted cleanups in the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh
   Kumar, Eric Biggers).

 - intel_pstate driver updates including fixes, optimizations and a
   modification to make it enable enable hardware-coordinated P-state
   selection (HWP) by default if supported by the processor (Philippe
   Longepe, Srinivas Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar, Felipe
   Franciosi).

 - Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework updates to improve
   its handling of voltage regulators and device clocks and updates
   of the cpufreq-dt driver on top of that (Viresh Kumar, Jon Hunter).

 - Updates of the powernv cpufreq driver to fix initialization
   and cleanup problems in it and correct its worker thread handling
   with respect to CPU offline, new powernv_throttle tracepoint
   (Shilpasri Bhat).

 - ACPI cpufreq driver optimization and cleanup (Rafael Wysocki).

 - ACPICA updates including one fix for a regression introduced
   by previos changes in the ACPICA code (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng,
   David Box, Colin Ian King).

 - Support for installing ACPI tables from initrd (Lv Zheng).

 - Optimizations of the ACPI CPPC code (Prashanth Prakash, Ashwin
   Chaugule).

 - Support for _HID(ACPI0010) devices (ACPI processor containers)
   and ACPI processor driver cleanups (Sudeep Holla).

 - Support for ACPI-based enumeration of the AMBA bus (Graeme Gregory,
   Aleksey Makarov).

 - Modification of the ACPI PCI IRQ management code to make it treat
   255 in the Interrupt Line register as "not connected" on x86 (as
   per the specification) and avoid attempts to use that value as
   a valid interrupt vector (Chen Fan).

 - ACPI APEI fixes related to resource leaks (Josh Hunt).

 - Removal of modularity from a few ACPI drivers (BGRT, GHES,
   intel_pmic_crc) that cannot be built as modules in practice (Paul
   Gortmaker).

 - PNP framework update to make it treat ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_SERIAL_BUS
   as a valid resource type (Harb Abdulhamid).

 - New device ID (future AMD I2C controller) in the ACPI driver for
   AMD SoCs (APD) and in the designware I2C driver (Xiangliang Yu).

 - Assorted ACPI cleanups (Colin Ian King, Kaiyen Chang, Oleg Drokin).

 - cpuidle menu governor optimization to avoid a square root
   computation in it (Rasmus Villemoes).

 - Fix for potential use-after-free in the generic device properties
   framework (Heikki Krogerus).

 - Updates of the generic power domains (genpd) framework including
   support for multiple power states of a domain, fixes and debugfs
   output improvements (Axel Haslam, Jon Hunter, Laurent Pinchart,
   Geert Uytterhoeven).

 - Intel RAPL power capping driver updates to reduce IPI overhead in
   it (Jacob Pan).

 - System suspend/hibernation code cleanups (Eric Biggers, Saurabh
   Sengar).

 - Year 2038 fix for the process freezer (Abhilash Jindal).

 - turbostat utility updates including new features (decoding of more
   registers and CPUID fields, sub-second intervals support, GFX MHz
   and RC6 printout, --out command line option), fixes (syscall jitter
   detection and workaround, reductioin of the number of syscalls made,
   fixes related to Xeon x200 processors, compiler warning fixes) and
   cleanups (Len Brown, Hubert Chrzaniuk, Chen Yu).

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ASoC: Updates for v4.6

The main thing in terms of the core this time around has been some
additional framework work for dynamic topologies (though we *still*
don't appear to have a stable ABI for the topology code, it's probably
worth considering if this will ever happen...).  Otherwise the work has
almost all been in the drivers:

 - HDMI support for Sky Lake, along with other fixes and enhancements
   for the Intel drivers.
 - Lots of improvements to the Renesas drivers.
 - Capture support for Qualcomm drivers.
 - Support for TI DaVinci DRA7xxx devices.
 - New machine drivers for Freescale systems with Cirrus CODECs,
   Mediatek systems with RT5650 CODECs.
 - New CPU drivers for Allwinner S/PDIF controllers
 - New CODEC drivers for Maxim MAX9867 and MAX98926 and Realtek RT5514.

wireless-drivers patches for 4.6

Major changes:

rtl8xxxu

* add 8723bu support

wl18xx

* add radar_debug_mode debugfs file for DFS testing

- two-stage wm updates for ilk-style platforms (Matt)
- more wm work and fixes from Maarten&Ville
- more work on rotated framebuffers to prep for rotated nv12 (Ville)
- more dc fixes (Imre)
- various execlist patches from Tvrtko
- various clock cleanups for gmch from Ville
- extract intel_dpll_mgr.c and refactor shared dpll code (Ander)

Linux 4.5

This is the 2.6.32.71 stable release

media fixes for v4.5-rc8

Power management and ACPI fixes for final v4.5

 - Revert a recent ACPICA commit that has been reverted
   upstream, because it caused problems to happen on user
   systems and the problem it attempted to address will not be
   relevant any more after upcoming ACPI specification changes
   (Bob Moore).

 - Fix crash in the generic device properties framework introduced
   by a recent change that forgot to check pointers against error
   values in addition to checking them against NULL (Heikki Krogerus).

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This is the 4.4.5 stable release

This is the 3.14.64 stable release

This is the 3.10.100 stable release

wireless-drivers patches for 4.6

Major changes:

ath10k

* dt: add bindings for ipq4019 wifi block
* start adding support for qca4019 chip

ath9k

* add device ID for Toshiba WLM-20U2/GN-1080
* allow more than one interface on DFS channels

bcma

* move flash detection code to ChipCommon core driver

brcmfmac

* IPv6 Neighbor discovery offload
* driver settings that can be populated from different sources
* country code setting in firmware
* length checks to validate firmware events
* new way to determine device memory size needed for BCM4366
* various offloads during Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN)
* full Management Frame Protection (MFP) support

iwlwifi

* add support for thermal device / cooling device
* improvements in scheduled scan without profiles
* new firmware support (-21.ucode)
* add MSIX support for 9000 devices
* enable MU-MIMO and take care of firmware restart
* add support for large SKBs in mvm to reach A-MSDU
* add support for filtering frames from a BA session
* start implementing the new Rx path for 9000 devices
* enable the new Radio Resource Management (RRM) nl80211 feature flag
* add a new module paramater to disable VHT
* build infrastructure for Dynamic Queue Allocation

This is the 3.12.56 stable release