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This is the 3.10.20 stable release

This is the 3.4.70 stable release

More ACPI and power management updates for 3.13-rc1

- ACPI-based device hotplug fixes for issues introduced recently and
  a fix for an older error code path bug in the ACPI PCI host bridge
  driver.

- Fix for recently broken OMAP cpufreq build from Viresh Kumar.

- Fix for a recent hibernation regression related to s2disk.

- Fix for a locking-related regression in the ACPI EC driver from
  Puneet Kumar.

- System suspend error code path fix related to runtime PM and
  runtime PM documentation update from Ulf Hansson.

- cpufreq's conservative governor fix from Xiaoguang Chen.

- New processor IDs for intel_idle and turbostat and removal of
  an obsolete Kconfig option from Len Brown.

- New device IDs for the ACPI LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver and
  ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) cleanup from Mika Westerberg.

- Removal of several ACPI video DMI blacklist entries that are not
  necessary any more from Aaron Lu.

- Rework of the ACPI companion representation in struct device and
  code cleanup related to that change from Rafael J Wysocki,
  Lan Tianyu and Jarkko Nikula.

- Fixes for assigning names to ACPI-enumerated I2C and SPI devices
  from Jarkko Nikula.

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sound fixes for 3.13-rc1

Two peaks in diffstat are for the audio EQ init of IDT codecs and the
EMU2004 usb mixer addition, both of which are pretty device-specific,
so safe to apply.  The rest are a bunch of small fixes, most of them
are regression fixes.

IOMMU Updates for Linux v3.13

This time the updates contain:

* Tracepoints for certain IOMMU-API functions to make
  their use easier to debug
* A tracepoint for IOMMU page faults to make it easier
  to get them in user space
* Updates and fixes for the new ARM SMMU driver after
  the first hardware showed up
* Various other fixes and cleanups in other IOMMU drivers

Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.
On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a
few bugfixes.  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved
overcommit, and support for big endian guests.

Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes
some nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these
patches and the corresponding userspace changes.

fbdev changes for 3.13

Nothing particularly stands out in this pull request. The biggest part of the
changes are cleanups.

Maybe one fix to mention is the "fb: reorder the lock sequence to fix potential
dead lock" which hopefully fixes the fb locking issues reported by multiple
persons.

There are also a few commits that have changes to arch/arm/mach-at91 and
arch/avr32, which have been acked by the maintainers.

This is the 3.11.8 stable release

This is the 3.10.19 stable release

This is the 3.4.69 stable release

DeviceTree updates for 3.13. This is a bit larger pull request than
usual for this cycle with lots of clean-up.

- Cross arch clean-up and consolidation of early DT scanning code.
- Clean-up and removal of arch prom.h headers. Makes arch specific
  prom.h optional on all but Sparc.
- Addition of interrupts-extended property for devices connected to
  multiple interrupt controllers.
- Refactoring of DT interrupt parsing code in preparation for deferred
  probe of interrupts.
- ARM cpu and cpu topology bindings documentation.
- Various DT vendor binding documentation updates.

GPIO bulk changes for the v3.13 development cycle

- Merged the GPIO descriptor API from Alexandre Courbot.
  This is a first step toward trying to get rid of the
  global GPIO numberspace for the future.

- Add an API so that driver can flag that a certain GPIO
  line is being used by a irqchip backend for generating
  IRQs, so that we can enforce checks, like not allowing
  users to switch that line to an output at runtime, since
  this makes no sense. Implemented corresponding calls
  in a few select drivers.

- ACPI GPIO cleanups, refactorings and switch to using the
  descriptor-based interface.

- Support for the TPS80036 Palmas GPIO variant.

- A new driver for the Broadcom Kona GPIO SoC IP block.

- Device tree support for the PCF857x driver.

- A set of ARM GPIO refactorings with the goal of getting
  rid of a bunch of custom GPIO implementations from the
  arch/arm/* tree:

  - Move the IOP GPIO driver to the GPIO subsystem and
    fix all users to use the gpiolib API for accessing
    GPIOs. Delete the old custom GPIO implementation.

  - Delete the unused custom PXA GPIO implemention.

  - Convert all users of the IXP4 custom GPIO
    implementation to use gpiolib and delete the custom
    implementation.

  - Delete the custom Gemini GPIO implementation, also
    completely unused.

- Various cleanups and renamings.

Main pin control pull request for the v3.13 cycle:

- Blackfin ADI pin control driver, we move yet another
  architecture under this subsystem umbrella.

- Incremental updates to the Renesas Super-H PFC pin control
  driver. New subdriver for the r8a7791 SoC.

- Non-linear GPIO ranges from the gpiolib side of things,
  this enabled simplified device tree bindings by referring
  entire groups of pins on some pin controller to act as
  back-end for a certain GPIO-chip driver.

- Add the Abilis TB10x pin control driver used on the ARC
  architecture. Also the corresponding GPIO driver is merged
  through this tree, so the ARC has full support for pins
  and GPIOs after this.

- Subdrivers for Freescale i.MX1, i.MX27 and i.MX50 pin
  controller instances. The i.MX1 and i.MX27 is an entirely
  new family (silicon) of controllers whereas i.MX50 is
  a variant of the previous supported controller.

- Then the usual slew of fixes, cleanups and incremental
  updates.

sound updates for 3.13-rc1

There are no too intrusive changes in this update batch.  The biggest
LOC is found in the new DICE driver, and other small changes are
scattered over the whole sound subtree (which is a common pattern).

Below are highlights:

- ALSA core:
  * Memory allocation support with genpool
  * Fix blocking in drain ioctl of compress_offload

- HD-audio:
  * Improved AMD HDMI supports
  * Intel HDMI detection improvements
  * thinkpad_acpi mute-key integration
  * New PCI ID, New ALC255,285,293 codecs, CX20952

- USB-audio:
  * New buffer size management
  * Clean up endpoint handling codes

- ASoC:
  * Further work on the dmaengine helpers, including support for
    configuring the parameters for DMA by reading the capabilities of
    the DMA controller which removes some guesswork and magic numbers
    from drivers.
  * A refresh of the documentation.
  * Conversions of many drivers to direct regmap API usage in order to
    allow the ASoC level register I/O code to be removed, this will
    hopefully be completed by v3.14.
  * Support for using async register I/O in DAPM, reducing the time
    taken to implement power transitions on systems that support it.

- Fireiwre: DICE driver

- Lots of small fixes for bugs reported by Coverity

Allwinner sunXi SoCs clock changes

Those are mostly random fixes, except for one patch to the composite
clock that adds support for automatic reparenting.

ACPI and power management updates for 3.13-rc1

 - New power capping framework and the the Intel Running Average Power
   Limit (RAPL) driver using it from Srinivas Pandruvada and Jacob Pan.

 - Addition of the in-kernel switching feature to the arm_big_little
   cpufreq driver from Viresh Kumar and Nicolas Pitre.

 - cpufreq support for iMac G5 from Aaro Koskinen.

 - Baytrail processors support for intel_pstate from Dirk Brandewie.

 - cpufreq support for Midway/ECX-2000 from Mark Langsdorf.

 - ARM vexpress/TC2 cpufreq support from Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.

 - ACPI power management support for the I2C and SPI bus types from
   Mika Westerberg and Lv Zheng.

 - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Srivatsa S Bhat,
   Stratos Karafotis, Xiaoguang Chen, Lan Tianyu.

 - cpufreq drivers updates (mostly fixes and cleanups) from Viresh Kumar,
   Aaro Koskinen, Jungseok Lee, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha, Lukasz Majewski,
   Manish Badarkhe, Hans-Christian Egtvedt, Evgeny Kapaev.

 - intel_pstate updates from Dirk Brandewie and Adrian Huang.

 - ACPICA update to version 20130927 includig fixes and cleanups and
   some reduction of divergences between the ACPICA code in the kernel
   and ACPICA upstream in order to improve the automatic ACPICA patch
   generation process.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, Tomasz Nowicki,
   Naresh Bhat, Bjorn Helgaas, David E Box.

 - ACPI IPMI driver fixes and cleanups from Lv Zheng.

 - ACPI hotplug fixes and cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas, Toshi Kani,
   Zhang Yanfei, Rafael J Wysocki.

 - Conversion of the ACPI AC driver to the platform bus type and
   multiple driver fixes and cleanups related to ACPI from Zhang Rui.

 - ACPI processor driver fixes and cleanups from Hanjun Guo, Jiang Liu,
   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Mathieu Rhéaume, Rafael J Wysocki.

 - Fixes and cleanups and new blacklist entries related to the ACPI
   video support from Aaron Lu, Felipe Contreras, Lennart Poettering,
   Kirill Tkhai.

 - cpuidle core cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Lorenzo Pieralisi.

 - cpuidle drivers fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano, Jingoo Han,
   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Prarit Bhargava.

 - devfreq updates from Sachin Kamat, Dan Carpenter, Manish Badarkhe.

 - Operation Performance Points (OPP) core updates from Nishanth Menon.

 - Runtime power management core fix from Rafael J Wysocki and update
   from Ulf Hansson.

 - Hibernation fixes from Aaron Lu and Rafael J Wysocki.

 - Device suspend/resume lockup detection mechanism from Benoit Goby.

 - Removal of unused proc directories created for various ACPI drivers
   from Lan Tianyu.

 - ACPI LPSS driver fix and new device IDs for the ACPI platform scan
   handler from Heikki Krogerus and Jarkko Nikula.

 - New ACPI _OSI blacklist entry for Toshiba NB100 from Levente Kurusa.

 - Assorted fixes and cleanups related to ACPI from Andy Shevchenko,
   Al Stone, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter,
   Felipe Contreras, Jianguo Wu, Lan Tianyu, Yinghai Lu, Mathias Krause,
   Liu Chuansheng.

 - Assorted PM fixes and cleanups from Andy Shevchenko, Thierry Reding,
   Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard.

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regulator: Updates for v3.13

Lots of driver updates here plus some nice new core features, the main
one being the first:

 - Enable support for providing a dummy regulator when we know that one
   must exist for the device to be functional.  This makes it much
   easier to add regulator support to drivers since we don't require
   that the machine integration for all systems using the device be
   updated to provide regulators.
 - Substantial reduction in the amount of busy waiting done while
   waiting for enables to complete.
 - Allow MFDs to distribute regulator supplies to child devices so we
   don't have to expose the internal structure of MFDs outside of the
   driver.
 - Managed registeration for regulators.

This is the 3.11.7 stable release

This is the 3.10.18 stable release

This is the 3.4.68 stable release