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This is the 3.12.57 stable release

sound updates for 4.6-rc1

After a heavy storm by syzkaller in 4.5 cycle, we have relatively few
changes in the core at this time while a lot of changes are found in
the driver side, unsurprisingly.  Below are some highlights:

ALSA core:
- A few more hardening in ALSA timer codes
- An extension of sequencer API for advertising the card / pid
- Small fixes in compress-offload and jack layers

HD-audio:
- Dynamic PCM assignment in HDMI/DP codec; preparation for upcoming
  DP-MST support
- Lots of code refactoring for sharing with ASoC SKL driver
- Regression fixes for Intel HDMI/DP
- Fixups for CX20724 codec, Lenovo AiO

USB-audio:
- Add quirk_alias option to make quirk debugging easier
- Fixes for possible Oops by malformed firmware

Firewire:
- Add support for FW-1804 in tascam driver
- Improvements / changes in card registration, multi stream handling,
  etc for DICE
- Lots of code refactoring

ASoC:
- Enhancements of still ongoing topology API
- Lots of commits for Intel Skylake support including HDMI support
- A few Intel Atom driver updates for recent devices
- 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

Linux 4.1.20

Linux 3.18.29

This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6:

Core changes:

- The gpio_chip is now a *real device*. Until now the gpio chips
  were just piggybacking the parent device or (gasp) floating in
  space outside of the device model. We now finally make GPIO chips
  devices. The gpio_chip will create a gpio_device which contains
  a struct device, and this gpio_device struct is kept private.
  Anything that needs to be kept private from the rest of the kernel
  will gradually be moved over to the gpio_device.

- As a result of making the gpio_device a real device, we have added
  resource management, so devm_gpiochip_add_data() will cut down on
  overhead and reduce code lines. A huge slew of patches convert
  almost all drivers in the subsystem to use this.

- Building on making the GPIO a real device, we add the first step
  of a new userspace ABI: the GPIO character device. We take small
  steps here, so we first add a pure *information* ABI and the tool
  "lsgpio" that will list all GPIO devices on the system and all
  lines on these devices. We can now discover GPIOs properly from
  userspace. We still have not come up with a way to actually *use*
  GPIOs from userspace.

- To encourage people to use the character device for the future,
  we have it always-enabled when using GPIO. The old sysfs ABI is
  still opt-in (and can be used in parallel), but is marked as
  deprecated. We will keep it around for the foreseeable future,
  but it will not be extended to cover ever more use cases.

Cleanup:

- Bjorn Helgaas removed a whole slew of per-architecture <asm/gpio.h>
  includes. This dates back to when GPIO was an opt-in feature and
  no shared library even existed: just a header file with proper
  prototypes was provided and all semantics were up to the arch to
  implement. These patches make the GPIO chip even more a proper
  device and cleans out leftovers of the old in-kernel API here
  and there. Still some cruft is left but it's very little now.

- There is still some clamping of return values for .get() going
  on, but we now return sane values in the vast majority of drivers
  and the errorpath is sanitized. Some patches for powerpc, blackfin
  and unicore still drop in.

- We continue to switch the ARM, MIPS, blackfin, m68k local GPIO
  implementations to use gpiochip_add_data() and cut down on code
  lines.

- MPC8xxx is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

- ATH79 is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

New drivers:

- WinSystems WS16C48

- Acces 104-DIO-48E

- F81866 (a F7188x variant)

- Qoric (a MPC8xxx variant)

- TS-4800

- SPI serializers (pisosr): simple 74xx shift registers connected
  to SPI to obtain a dirt-cheap output-only GPIO expander.

- Texas Instruments TPIC2810

- Texas Instruments TPS65218

- Texas Instruments TPS65912

- X-Gene (ARM64) standby GPIO controller

This is the 4.4.6 stable release

This is the 3.14.65 stable release

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.

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.

- 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

This is the 4.4.5 stable release