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Power management and ACPI updates for v4.1-rc1

 - Generic PM domains support update including new PM domain
   callbacks to handle device initialization better (Russell King,
   Rafael J Wysocki, Kevin Hilman).

 - Unified device properties API update including a new mechanism
   for accessing data provided by platform initialization code
   (Rafael J Wysocki, Adrian Hunter).

 - ARM cpuidle update including ARM32/ARM64 handling consolidation
   (Daniel Lezcano).

 - intel_idle update including support for the Silvermont Core in
   the Baytrail SOC and for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and
   Braswell SOCs (Len Brown, Mathias Krause).

 - New cpufreq driver for Hisilicon ACPU (Leo Yan).

 - intel_pstate update including support for the Knights Landing
   chip (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli, Kristen Carlson Accardi).

 - QorIQ cpufreq driver update (Tang Yuantian, Arnd Bergmann).

 - powernv cpufreq driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat).

 - devfreq update including Tegra support changes (Tomeu Vizoso,
   MyungJoo Ham, Chanwoo Choi).

 - powercap RAPL (Running-Average Power Limit) driver update
   including support for Intel Broadwell server chips (Jacob Pan,
   Mathias Krause).

 - ACPI device enumeration update related to the handling of the
   special PRP0001 device ID allowing DT-style 'compatible' property
   to be used for ACPI device identification (Rafael J Wysocki).

 - ACPI EC driver update including limited _DEP support (Lan Tianyu,
   Lv Zheng).

 - ACPI backlight driver update including a new mechanism to allow
   native backlight handling to be forced on non-Windows 8 systems
   and a new quirk for Lenovo Ideapad Z570 (Aaron Lu, Hans de Goede).

 - New Windows Vista compatibility quirk for Sony VGN-SR19XN (Chen Yu).

 - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups (Aaron Lu, Martin Kepplinger,
   Masanari Iida, Mika Westerberg, Nan Li, Rafael J Wysocki).

 - Fixes related to suspend-to-idle for the iTCO watchdog driver and
   the ACPI core system suspend/resume code (Rafael J Wysocki, Chen Yu).

 - PM tracing support for the suspend phase of system suspend/resume
   transitions (Zhonghui Fu).

 - Configurable delay for the system suspend/resume testing facility
   (Brian Norris).

 - PNP subsystem cleanups (Peter Huewe, Rafael J Wysocki).

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