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sound updates for 4.19

It's been busy summer weeks and hence lots of changes, partly for a
few new drivers and partly for a wide range of fixes.
Here are highlights:

ALSA Core:
 - Fix rawmidi buffer management, code cleanup / refactoring
 - Fix the SG-buffer page handling with incorrect fallback size
 - Fix the stall at virmidi trigger callback with a large buffer;
   also offloading and code-refactoring along with it
 - Various ALSA sequencer code cleanups

ASoC:
 - Deploy the standard snd_pcm_stop_xrun() helper in several drivers
 - Support for providing name prefixes to generic component nodes
 - Quite a few fixes for DPCM as it gains a bit wider use and more
   robust testing
 - Generalization of the DIO2125 support to a simple amplifier driver
 - Accessory detection support for the audio graph card
 - DT support for PXA AC'97 devices
 - Quirks for a number of new x86 systems
 - Support for AM Logic Meson, Everest ES7154, Intel systems with
   RT5682, Qualcomm QDSP6 and WCD9335, Realtek RT5682 and TI TAS5707

HD-audio:
 - Code refactoring in HD-audio ext codec codes to drop own classes;
   preliminary works for the upcoming legacy codec support
 - Generalized DRM audio component for the upcoming radeon / amdgpu
   support
 - Unification of mic mute-LED and GPIO support for various codecs
 - Further improvement of CA0132 codec support including Recon3D
 - Proper vga_switcheroo handling for AMD i-GPU
 - Update of model list in documentation
 - Fixups for another HP Spectre x360, Conexant codecs, power-save
   blacklist update

USB-audio:
 - Fix the invalid sample rate setup with external clock
 - Support of UAC3 selector units and processing units
 - Basic UAC3 power-domain support
 - Support for Encore mDSD and Thesycon-based DSD devices
 - Preparation for future complete callback changes

Firewire:
 - Add support for MOTU Traveler

Misc:
 - The endianess notation fixes in various drivers
 - Add fall-through comment in lots of drivers
 - Various sparse warning fixes, e.g. about PCM format types

ASoC: Updates for v4.19

A fairly big update, including quite a bit of core activity this time
around (which is good to see) along with a fairly large set of new
drivers.

 - A new snd_pcm_stop_xrun() helper which is now used in several
   drivers.
 - Support for providing name prefixes to generic component nodes.
 - Quite a few fixes for DPCM as it gains a bit wider use and more
   robust testing.
 - Generalization of the DIO2125 support to a simple amplifier driver.
 - Accessory detection support for the audio graph card.
 - DT support for PXA AC'97 devices.
 - Quirks for a number of new x86 systems.
 - Support for AM Logic Meson, Everest ES7154, Intel systems with
   RT5682, Qualcomm QDSP6 and WCD9335, Realtek RT5682 and TI TAS5707.

Linux 4.18

wireless-drivers-next patches for 4.19

Last set of new features for 4.19. Most notable is simplifying SSB
debugging code with two Kconfig option removals and fixing mt76 USB
build problems.

Major changes:

ath10k

* add debugfs file warm_hw_reset

wil6210

* add debugfs files tx_latency, link_stats and link_stats_global

* add 3-MSI support

* allow scan on AP interface

* support max aggregation window size 64

ssb

* remove CONFIG_SSB_SILENT and CONFIG_SSB_DEBUG Kconfig options

mt76

* fix build problems with recently added USB support

Branch point for 4.14-p-release

Branch point for 4.4-p-release

Branch point for 4.9-p-release

This is the 3.18.118 stable release

This is the 4.4.147 stable release

This is the 4.9.119 stable release

This is the 4.14.62 stable release

This is the 4.17.14 stable release

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-08-01
CVE-2017-18249*
CVE-2018-9465
CVE-2018-9439
CVE-2018-1068

* currently no 4.4 backports exist for CVE-2017-18249 on android-4.4
  release branches. This affects only devices using f2fs running
  4.4 kernels.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-08-01
CVE-2017-18249*
CVE-2018-9465
CVE-2018-9439
CVE-2018-1068

* currently no 4.4 backports exist for CVE-2017-18249 on android-4.4
  release branches. This affects only devices using f2fs running
  4.4 kernels.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-08-01
CVE-2017-18249*
CVE-2018-9465
CVE-2018-9439
CVE-2018-1068

* currently no 4.4 backports exist for CVE-2017-18249 on android-4.4
  release branches. This affects only devices using f2fs running
  4.4 kernels.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-08-01
CVE-2017-18249*
CVE-2018-9465
CVE-2018-9439
CVE-2018-1068

* currently no 4.4 backports exist for CVE-2017-18249 on android-4.4
  release branches. This affects only devices using f2fs running
  4.4 kernels.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-08-01
CVE-2017-18249*
CVE-2018-9465
CVE-2018-9439
CVE-2018-1068

* currently no 4.4 backports exist for CVE-2017-18249 on android-4.4
  release branches. This affects only devices using f2fs running
  4.4 kernels.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-08-01
CVE-2017-18249*
CVE-2018-9465
CVE-2018-9439
CVE-2018-1068

* currently no 4.4 backports exist for CVE-2017-18249 on android-4.4
  release branches. This affects only devices using f2fs running
  4.4 kernels.