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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).

Power management updates for v4.14-rc1

 - Drop the P-state selection algorithm based on a PID controller
   from intel_pstate and make it use the same P-state selection
   method (based on the CPU load) for all types of systems in the
   active mode (Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada).

 - Rework the cpufreq core and governors to make it possible to
   take cross-CPU utilization updates into account and modify the
   schedutil governor to actually do so (Viresh Kumar).

 - Clean up the handling of transition latency information in the
   cpufreq core and untangle it from the information on which drivers
   cannot do dynamic frequency switching (Viresh Kumar).

 - Add support for new SoCs (MT2701/MT7623 and MT7622) to the
   mediatek cpufreq driver and update its DT bindings (Sean Wang).

 - Modify the cpufreq dt-platdev driver to autimatically create
   cpufreq devices for the new (v2) Operating Performance Points
   (OPP) DT bindings and update its whitelist of supported systems
   (Viresh Kumar, Shubhrajyoti Datta, Marc Gonzalez, Khiem Nguyen,
   Finley Xiao).

 - Add support for Ux500 to the cpufreq-dt driver and drop the
   obsolete dbx500 cpufreq driver (Linus Walleij, Arnd Bergmann).

 - Add new SoC (R8A7795) support to the cpufreq rcar driver (Khiem
   Nguyen).

 - Fix and clean up assorted issues in the cpufreq drivers and core
   (Arvind Yadav, Christophe Jaillet, Colin Ian King, Gustavo Silva,
   Julia Lawall, Leonard Crestez, Rob Herring, Sudeep Holla).

 - Update the IO-wait boost handling in the schedutil governor to
   make it less aggressive (Joel Fernandes).

 - Rework system suspend diagnostics to make it print fewer messages
   to the kernel log by default, add a sysfs knob to allow more
   suspend-related messages to be printed and add Low Power S0 Idle
   constraints checks to the ACPI suspend-to-idle code (Rafael
   Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada).

 - Prefer suspend-to-idle over S3 on ACPI-based systems with the
   ACPI_FADT_LOW_POWER_S0 flag set and the Low Power Idle S0 _DSM
   interface present in the ACPI tables (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Update documentation related to system sleep and rename a number
   of items in the code to make it cleare that they are related to
   suspend-to-idle (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Export a variable allowing device drivers to check the target
   system sleep state from the core system suspend code (Florian
   Fainelli).

 - Clean up the cpuidle subsystem to handle the polling state on
   x86 in a more straightforward way and to use %pOF instead of
   full_name (Rafael Wysocki, Rob Herring).

 - Update the devfreq framework to fix and clean up a few minor
   issues (Chanwoo Choi, Rob Herring).

 - Extend diagnostics in the generic power domains (genpd) framework
   and clean it up slightly (Thara Gopinath, Rob Herring).

 - Fix and clean up a couple of issues in the operating performance
   points (OPP) framework (Viresh Kumar, Waldemar Rymarkiewicz).

 - Add support for RV1108 to the rockchip-io Adaptive Voltage Scaling
   (AVS) driver (David Wu).

 - Fix the usage of notifiers in CPU power management on some
   platforms (Alex Shi).

 - Update the pm-graph system suspend/hibernation and boot profiling
   utility (Todd Brandt).

 - Make it possible to run the cpupower utility without CPU0 (Prarit
   Bhargava).

regulator: Updates for v4.14

This is an extremely quiet release for the regulator subsystem, it's all
fairly minor fixes and cleanups plus a few new drivers and ddevice ID
additions:

 - Support for MediaTek MT6380, Ricoh RC5T619 and ST Voltage Reference
   Buffers.

ASoC: Fixes for the CS43130 driver

A couple of warning fixes for the newly added CS43130 driver.

ASoC: Updates for v4.14

This is quite a large release by volume of patches and diff, a lot of
that is mechanical cleanup patches but it's great to also see a range of
vendors actively working on adding new features and fixing issues in
their drivers.  Intel and Realtek have been especially active here.

 - Continued work towards moving everything to the component model from
   Morimoto-san.
 - Use of devres for jack detection GPIOs, eliminating some potential
   resource leaks.
 - 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.

Linux 4.13

This is the 4.9.47 stable release

This is the 4.4.86 stable release

This is the 3.18.69 stable release

regulator: Add support for different OMAP variants in the pbias regulator