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This is the 4.4.180 stable release

This is the 4.9.177 stable release

This is the 4.14.120 stable release

This is the 4.19.44 stable release

This is the 5.0.17 stable release

This is the 5.1.3 stable release

media updates for v5.2-rc1

This is the 3.18.140 stable release

More ACPI updates for 5.2-rc1

 - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20190509
   including one regression fix:
   * Prevent excessive ACPI debug messages from being printed
     by moving the ACPI_DEBUG_DEFAULT definition to the right
     place (Erik Schmauss).

 - Set the enable_for_wake bits for wakeup GPEs during suspend to
   idle to allow acpi_enable_all_wakeup_gpes() to enable them as
   aproppriate and make wakeup devices sighaling events through ACPI
   GPEs work with suspend-to-idle again (Rajat Jain).

 - Use 64 bits to store the return values of _ADR which are assumed
   to be 64-bit by some bus specs and may contain nonzero bits in the
   upper 32 bits part for some devices (Pierre-Louis Bossart).

 - Fix two minor issues with the ACPI documentation (Sakari Ailus).

More power management updates for 5.2-rc1

 - Fix recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM
   unset to crash on systems that support the Performance and
   Energy Bias Hint (EPB) by avoiding to compile the EPB-related
   code depending on CONFIG_PM when it is unset (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Clean up the transition notifier invocation code in the cpufreq
   core and change some users of cpufreq transition notifiers
   accordingly (Viresh Kumar).

 - Change MAINTAINERS to cover the schedutil governor as part of
   cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).

 - Simplify cpufreq_init_policy() to avoid redundant computations
   (Yue Hu).

 - Add explanatory comment to the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Introduce a new flag, GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON, to the generic
   power domains (genpd) framework along with the first user of it
   (Leonard Crestez).

This is the 4.9.176 stable release

This is the 4.14.119 stable release

This is the 4.19.43 stable release

This is the 5.0.16 stable release

This is the 5.1.2 stable release

This is the 3.16.67 stable release

This is the bulk of the GPIO changes for the v5.2 kernel cycle:

Core changes:
- The gpiolib MMIO driver has been enhanced to handle two direction
  registers, i.e. one register to set lines as input and one register
  to set lines as output. It turns out some silicon engineer thinks
  the ability to configure a line as input and output at the same
  time makes sense, this can be debated but includes a lot of analog
  electronics reasoning, and the registers are there and need to
  be handled consistently. Unsurprisingly, we enforce the lines to
  be either inputs or outputs in such schemes.
- Send in the proper argument value to .set_config() dispatched to
  the pin control subsystem. Nobody used it before, now someone
  does, so fix it to work as expected.
- The ACPI gpiolib portions can now handle pin bias setting (pull up
  or pull down). This has been in the ACPI spec for years and we
  finally have it properly integrated with Linux GPIOs. It was based
  on an observation from Andy Schevchenko that Thomas Petazzoni's
  changes to the core for biasing the PCA950x GPIO expander actually
  happen to fit hand-in-glove with what the ACPI core needed.
  Such nice synergies happen sometimes.

New drivers:
- A new driver for the Mellanox BlueField GPIO controller. This is
  using 64bit MMIO registers and can configure lines as inputs
  and outputs at the same time and after improving the MMIO library
  we handle it just fine. Interesting.
- A new IXP4xx proper gpiochip driver with hierarchical interrupts
  should be coming in from the ARM SoC tree as well.

Driver enhancements:
- The PCA053x driver handles the CAT9554 GPIO expander.
- The PCA053x driver handles the NXP PCAL6416 GPIO expander.
- Wake-up support on PCA053x GPIO lines.
- OMAP now does a nice asynchronous IRQ handling on wake-ups by
  letting everything wake up on edges, and this makes runtime PM
  work as expected too.

Misc:
- Several cleanups such as devres fixes.
- Get rid of some languager comstructs that cause problems when
  compiling with LLVMs clang.
- Documentation review and update.

This is the 5.1.1 stable release

This is the 5.0.15 stable release

This is the 4.19.42 stable release