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This is the 3.12.69 stable release

Three fixes:
 * avoid a WARN_ON() when trying to use WEP with AP_VLANs
 * ensure enough headroom on mesh forwarding packets
 * don't report unknown/invalid rates to userspace

This is the 4.8.15 stable release

This is the 4.4.39 stable release

IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.10

These changes include:

	* Support for the ACPI IORT table on ARM systems and patches to
	  make the ARM-SMMU driver make use of it

	* Conversion of the Exynos IOMMU driver to device dependency
	  links and implementation of runtime pm support based on that
	  conversion

	* Update the Mediatek IOMMU driver to use the new
	  struct device->iommu_fwspec member

	* Implementation of dma_map/unmap_resource in the generic ARM
	  dma-iommu layer

	* A number of smaller fixes and improvements all over the place

DeviceTree updates for 4.10:

- Add various vendor prefixes.

- Fix NUMA node handling when "numa=off" is passed on kernel command
  line.

- Coding style Clean-up of overlay handling code.

- DocBook fixes in DT platform driver code

- Altera SoCFPGA binding addtions for freeze bridge, arria10 FPGA
  manager and FPGA bridges.

- Couple of printk message fixes.

media updates for v4.10-rc1

ACPI CPPC fixes for v4.10-rc1

 - Fix a crash in KVM encountered in linux-next and introduced by
   a recent intel_pstate change that caused the driver to use the
   ACPI CPPC code and uncovered a missing NULL pointer check in
   it (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior).

 - Fix a possible use-after-free in the same code area (Rafael Wysocki).

sound updates for 4.10-rc1

No dramatic changes are found in this development cycle, but as usual,
many commits are applied in a wide range of drivers.

Most of big changes are in ASoC, where a few bits of framework work
and quite a lot of cleanups and improvements to existing code have
been done.  The rest are usual stuff, a few HD-audio and USB-audio
quirks and fixes, as well as the drop of kthread usages in the whole
subsystem.

Below are some highlights:

ASoC:
- Support for stereo DAPM controls
- Some initial work on the of-graph sound card
- regmap conversions of the remaining AC'97 drivers
- A new version of the topology ABI; this should be backward compatible
- Updates / cleanups of rsnd, sunxi, sti, nau8825, samsung, arizona,
  Intel skylake, atom-sst
- New drivers for Cirrus Logic CS42L42, Qualcomm MSM8916-WCD, and
  Realtek RT5665

USB-audio:
- Yet another race fix at disconnection
- Tolerated packet size calculation for some Android devices
- Quirks for Axe-Fx II, QuickCam, TEAC 501/503

HD-audio:
- Improvement of Dell pin fixup mapping
- Quirks for HP Z1 Gen3, Alienware 15 R2 2016 and ALC622 headset mic

Misc:
- Replace all kthread usages with simple works

Main pull request for drm for 4.10 kernel

ACPI material for v4.10-rc1

 - ACPICA update including upstream revision 20160930 and several
   commits beyond it (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng).

 - Initial support for ACPI APEI on ARM64 (Tomasz Nowicki).

 - New document describing the handling of _OSI and _REV in Linux
   (Len Brown).

 - New document describing the usage rules for _DSD properties
   (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Update of the ACPI properties-parsing code to reflect recent
   changes in the (external) documentation it is based on (Rafael
   Wysocki).

 - Updates of the ACPI LPSS and ACPI APD SoC drivers for additional
   hardware support (Andy Shevchenko, Nehal Shah).

 - New blacklist entries for _REV and video handling (Alex Hung,
   Hans de Goede, Michael Pobega).

 - ACPI battery driver fix to fall back to _BIF if _BIX fails (Dave
   Lambley).

 - NMI notifications handling fix for APEI (Prarit Bhargava).

 - Error code path fix for the ACPI CPPC library (Dan Carpenter).

 - Assorted cleanups (Andy Shevchenko, Longpeng Mike).

Power management material for v4.10-rc1

 - New cpufreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs and a Device Tree binding
   for it (Markus Mayer).

 - Support for ARM Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP in the generic
   DT cpufreq driver and elimination of the old Integrator cpufreq
   driver (Linus Walleij).

 - Support for the zx296718, r8a7743 and r8a7745, Socionext UniPhier,
   and PXA SoCs in the the generic DT cpufreq driver (Baoyou Xie,
   Geert Uytterhoeven, Masahiro Yamada, Robert Jarzmik).

 - cpufreq core fix to eliminate races that may lead to using
   inactive policy objects and related cleanups (Rafael Wysocki).

 - cpufreq schedutil governor update to make it use SCHED_FIFO
   kernel threads (instead of regular workqueues) for doing delayed
   work (to reduce the response latency in some cases) and related
   cleanups (Viresh Kumar).

 - New cpufreq sysfs attribute for resetting statistics (Markus
   Mayer).

 - cpufreq governors fixes and cleanups (Chen Yu, Stratos Karafotis,
   Viresh Kumar).

 - Support for using generic cpufreq governors in the intel_pstate
   driver (Rafael Wysocki).

 - Support for per-logical-CPU P-state limits and the EPP/EPB
   (Energy Performance Preference/Energy Performance Bias) knobs
   in the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas Pandruvada).

 - New CPU ID for Knights Mill in intel_pstate (Piotr Luc).

 - intel_pstate driver modification to use the P-state selection
   algorithm based on CPU load on platforms with the system profile
   in the ACPI tables set to "mobile" (Srinivas Pandruvada).

 - intel_pstate driver cleanups (Arnd Bergmann, Rafael Wysocki,
   Srinivas Pandruvada).

 - cpufreq powernv driver updates including fast switching support
   (for the schedutil governor), fixes and cleanus (Akshay Adiga,
   Andrew Donnellan, Denis Kirjanov).

 - acpi-cpufreq driver rework to switch it over to the new CPU
   offline/online state machine (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior).

 - Assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers (Wei Yongjun, Prashanth
   Prakash).

 - Idle injection rework (to make it use the regular idle path
   instead of a home-grown custom one) and related powerclamp
   thermal driver updates (Peter Zijlstra, Jacob Pan, Petr Mladek,
   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior).

 - New CPU IDs for Atom Z34xx and Knights Mill in intel_idle (Andy
   Shevchenko, Piotr Luc).

 - intel_idle driver cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU
   offline/online state machine (Anna-Maria Gleixner, Sebastian
   Andrzej Siewior).

 - cpuidle DT driver update to support suspend-to-idle properly
   (Sudeep Holla).

 - cpuidle core cleanups and misc updates (Daniel Lezcano, Pan Bian,
   Rafael Wysocki).

 - Preliminary support for power domains including CPUs in the
   generic power domains (genpd) framework and related DT bindings
   (Lina Iyer).

 - Assorted fixes and cleanups in the generic power domains (genpd)
   framework (Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Geert Uytterhoeven).

 - Preliminary support for devices with multiple voltage regulators
   and related fixes and cleanups in the Operating Performance Points
   (OPP) library (Viresh Kumar, Masahiro Yamada, Stephen Boyd).

 - System sleep state selection interface rework to make it easier
   to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method
   (Rafael Wysocki).

 - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly related to the interactions
   between the system suspend and runtime PM frameworks (Ulf Hansson,
   Sahitya Tummala, Tony Lindgren).

 - Latency tolerance PM QoS framework imorovements (Andrew
   Lutomirski).

 - New Knights Mill CPU ID for the Intel RAPL power capping driver
   (Piotr Luc).

 - Intel RAPL power capping driver fixes, cleanups and switch over
   to using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Jacob Pan,
   Thomas Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior).

 - Fixes and cleanups in the exynos-ppmu, exynos-nocp, rk3399_dmc,
   rockchip-dfi devfreq drivers and the devfreq core (Axel Lin,
   Chanwoo Choi, Javier Martinez Canillas, MyungJoo Ham, Viresh
   Kumar).

 - Fix for false-positive KASAN warnings during resume from ACPI S3
   (suspend-to-RAM) on x86 (Josh Poimboeuf).

 - Memory map verification during resume from hibernation on x86 to
   ensure a consistent address space layout (Chen Yu).

 - Wakeup sources debugging enhancement (Xing Wei).

 - rockchip-io AVS driver cleanup (Shawn Lin).

ASoC: Updates for v4.10

There's been a few bits of framework work this time around and quite a
lot of cleanups and improvements to existing code:

 - Support for stereo DAPM controls from Chen-yu Tsai.
 - Some initial work on the of-graph sound card from Morimoto-san, the
   main bulk of this is currently in binding review.
 - Lots of Renesas cleanups from Morimoto-san and sunxi work from
   Chen-yu Tsai.
 - regmap conversions of the remaining AC'97 drivers from Lars-Peter
   Clausen.
 - A new version of the topology ABI from Mengdong Lin.
 - New drivers for Cirrus Logic CS42L42, Qualcomm MSM8916-WCD, and Realtek
   RT5665.

regulator: Updates for v4.10

A quiet release for the regulator API, conference season must've been
slowing everyone down:

 - A new interface allowing drivers to provide an interface for reading
   a more detailed description of error conditions which allows devices
   using these regulators to build
 - ACPI support for the fixed voltage regulator.
 - Cleanups for the TI TWL drivers to reduce code duplication.

Bulk GPIO changes for the v4.10 kernel cycle:

Core changes:

- Simplify threaded interrupt handling: instead of passing
  numbed parameters to gpiochip_irqchip_add_chained() we
  create a new call: gpiochip_irqchip_add_nested() so the two
  types are clearly semantically different. Also make sure
  that all nested chips call gpiochip_set_nested_irqchip()
  which is necessary for IRQ resend to work properly if
  it happens.

- Return error on seek operations for the chardev.

- Clamp values set as part of gpio[d]_direction_output() so
  that anything != 0 will be send down to the driver as "1"
  not the value passed in.

- ACPI can now support naming of GPIO lines, hogs and holes
  in the GPIO lists.

New drivers:

- The SX150x driver was deemed unfit for the GPIO subsystem
  and was moved over to a combined GPIO+pinctrl driver in the
  pinctrl subsystem.

New features:

- Various cleanups to various drivers.

Linux 4.9

This is the 4.8.14 stable release