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• Pull m68k updates

• Pull debugobjects update

• Pull EFI updates

• Pull genirq updates

• Pull RCU updates

• Pull x86 RAS updates

• Pull scheduler updates

• Pull locking/atomics update

• Pull perf update

• Pull timer updates

• Pull x86 apic update

• Pull x86 boot updates

• Pull x86 asm updates

• Pull x86 build cleanup

• Pull x86 cleanups

• Pull x86 cpu updates

• Pull x86 dump printing cleanup

• Pull x86/hyper-v update

• Pull x86 cache QoS (RDT/CAR) updates

• Pull x86 platform updates

• Pull x86 mm updates

• Pull x86 vdso update

• Pull x86 PTI updates

• Pull x86 timer updates

• Pull s390 updates

• Pull ARM updates

• Pull ARM clkdev updates

• Pull parisc updates

• Pull MIPS updates

• Pull hwmon updates

• Pull vfs open-related updates

• Pull vfs icache updates

• Pull vfs lookup() updates

• Pull vfs aio updates

• Pull misc vfs updates

• Pull file locking updates

• Pull btrfs updates

• Pull fs iomap refactoring

• Pull cifs updates

• Pull ext4 updates

• Pull xfs updates

• Merge L1 Terminal Fault fixes

• Pull block updates

• Pull mtd updates

• Pull MD updates

• Pull dma-mapping updates

• Pull configfs updates

• Pull regmap updates

• Pull spi updates

• Pull regulator updates

• Pull pin control updates

• Pull Devicetree updates

• Pull LED updates

• Pull power management updates

• Pull ACPI updates

• Pull sound updates

• Pull documentation update

• Pull arm64 updates

• Pull xen updates

• Pull hardened usercopy updates

• Pull pstore update

• Pull security subsystem updates

• Pull SELinux updates

• Pull audit patches

• Pull printk updates

• Pull gcc plugin cleanups

• Pull Kbuild updates

• Pull Kconfig updates

• Pull Kconfig consolidation

• Pull networking updates

• Pull crypto updates

• Pull drm updates

• Pull media updates

• Pull auxdisplay updates

• Pull clang-format updates

• Pull random updates

• Pull EDAC updates

• Pull GPIO updates

• Pull clk updates

• Pull SCSI updates

• Pull gfs2 updates

• Pull smack updates

• Pull TPM updates

• Pull integrity updates

• Pull pci updates

• Pull mailbox updates

• Pull thermal management updates

• Pull VFIO updates

• Pull orangefs updates

• Pull UDF and ext2 update

• Pull fsnotify updates

• Pull device mapper updates

• Pull VLA removal leftovers

• Pull modules updates

• Pull powerpc updates

• Pull drm msm support for adreno a6xx

• Pull rdma updates

• Merge memory management updates from akpm

• Pull 9p updates

• Pull USB/PHY updates

• Pull tty/serial driver updates

• Pull staging and IIO updates

• Pull char/misc driver updates

• Pull driver core updates

• Pull MMC updates

• Pull DMAengine updates

• Pull watchdog updates

• Pull remoteproc updates

• Pull rpmsg updates

• Pull hwspinlock updates

• Pull input updates

• Pull RISC-V updates

• Pull first set of KVM updates

• Pull MFD updates

• Pull backlight updates

• Pull HID updates

• Pull livepatching updates

• Pull RTC updates

• Pull ceph updates

• Pull tracing updates

• Pull Kselftest update

• Pull ia64 NO_BOOTMEM conversion

• Pull arch/microblaze updates

• Pull chrome platform updates

• Pull core signal handling updates

• Pull i2c updates

• Pull power supply and reset updates

• Pull overlayfs updates

• Pull fuse update

• Pull arch/h8300 updates

• Pull sparc updates

• Pull IDE updates

• Pull more power management updates

• Pull more ACPI updates

• Merge more memory management updates from akpm

• Pull f2fs updates

• Pull more block updates

• Pull second set of KVM updates

• Pull Xtensa updates

• Pull more parisc updates

• Pull x86 platform driver updates

• Pull ARM 32-bit SoC platform updates

• Pull ARM SoC driver updates

• Pull ARM SoC defconfig updates

• Pull ARM device-tree updates

• Pull OpenRISC update

• Pull fbdev updates

• Pull pwm updates

• Pull UBI/UBIFS updates

• Pull nfsd updates

• Pull NFS client updates

• Merge yet more memory management updates from akpm

• Pull virtio updates

• Pull second i2c update

• Pull s390 updates

• Pull apparmor updates

• Pull thermal management updates

• Pull IOMMU updates

• Pull workqueue updates

• Pull cgroup updates

• Pull libata updates

• Pull more Kbuild updates

• Pull ARM SoC late updates

• Pull libnvdimm updates

• Pull libnvdimm memory-failure update

• Pull irq update

• Pull perf updates

• Pull IDA updates

• Pull timer update

1. Audio

• firewire-motu: add support for Motu Traveler commit

• hda/ca0132: Adds support for the Recon3D PCI-E card commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• hda/realtek: Comprehensive model list for ALC262 commit, ALC268 commit, ALC882 & co commit

• usb-audio: add support for UAC3 Power Domains. This feature of the USB audio class 3 allows the host to notify the device what it is making use of so power comsumption can be optimized commit, commit, commit, commit

• usb-audio: Add support for Encore mDSD USB DAC commit

• ASoC

  • Intel: Boards: Add GLK Realtek Maxim I2S machine driver commit

  • core: add support to card re-bind using component framework commit

  • es7134: add support for the es7154 commit

  • es7241: add es7241 codec support commit

  • meson: adds support for the audio subsystem found on Amlogic's axg SoC family. The first SoC of this family is the A113D/X targeted at smart speaker application. The G12a SoC family, Amlogic next-gen STB chipset, will reuse this audio subsystem commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • qcom: add sdm845 sound card support commit

  • rt5651: Add IN3 Boost volume control commit

  • rt5651: Add button press support commit

  • rt5682: add rt5682 codec driver commit

  • stm32: sai: add iec958 controls support commit

  • tas517x: add tas5707 support commit

  • uniphier: add support for multichannel output commit

  • wcd9335: add CLASS-H Controller support commit

  • wcd9335: add support to wcd9335 codec commit

  • wm_adsp: Allow up to 8 channels for voice control commit

2. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses

• Add MT_TOOL_DIAL commit

• Add bu21029 touch driver commit

• egalax_ts - add system wakeup support commit

• elantech - enable middle button of touchpad on ThinkPad P72 commit

• touchscreen: resistive-adc-touch: add generic resistive ADC touchscreen commit

• HID:

  • Add support for Apple Magic Keyboards commit

  • cougar: Add support for the Cougar 500k Gaming Keyboard commit

  • elan: Add USB-id for HP x2 10-n000nd touchpad commit

  • elan: Add support for touchpad on the Toshiba Click Mini L9W commit

  • hid-saitek: Add device ID for RAT 7 Contagion commit

  • input: enable Totem on the Dell Canvas 27 commit

  • intel-ish-hid: Enable Ice Lake mobile commit

  • intel-ish-hid: Enable Sunrise Point-H ish driver commit

  • microsoft: support the Surface Dial commit

  • wiimote: add support for Guitar-Hero devices commit

3. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers

• v4l2-ctrl: Add control for VP9 profile commit

• v4l: enables the video standards to be controlled directly on the subdev device node commit

• v4l: Add new 10-bit packed grayscale format commit, add new 2X8 10-bit grayscale media bus code commit

• vicodec: the Virtual Codec driver, a driver that emulates a HW codec commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ak7375: Add ak7375 lens voice coil driver commit

• camss: Add support for 10-bit grayscale formats commit

• camss: Add support for 8x96 on csid commit, ispif commit, vfe commit

• camss: Add support for RAW MIPI14 on 8x96 commit

• camss: vfe: Add support for UYVY output from VFE on 8x96 commit

• coda: add read-only h.264 decoder profile/level controls commit

• dvb-frontends: add Socionext MN88443x ISDB-S/T demodulator driver commit

• dw9807: Add dw9807 vcm driver commit

• i2c: Add driver for Aptina MT9V111 commit

• i2c: Copy rj54n1cb0c soc_camera sensor driver commit

• i2c: lm3560: add support for lm3559 chip commit

• imx274: add cropping support via SELECTION API commit

• ov2680: Add Omnivision OV2680 sensor driver commit

• ov5640: add HFLIP/VFLIP controls support commit

• ov5640: add support of module orientation commit

• ov772x: add media controller support commit

• platform: Add ChromeOS EC CEC driver commit

• rcar-vin: Add support for R-Car R8A77995 SoC commit, enable support for r8a77965 commit

• smiapp: Support the "rotation" property commit

• uvcvideo: Add KSMedia 8-bit IR format support commit

• venus: add HEVC codec support commit

• venus: hfi: preparation to support venus 4xx commit

• venus: implementing multi-stream support commit

• video-i2c: add hwmon support for amg88xx commit

4. Universal Serial Bus

• Report wakeup events on root-hub ports commit

• typec: tcpm: Support for Alternate Modes commit

• typec: tcpci: move tcpci drivers out of staging commit

• Add USB ehci support for nuvoton npcm7xx platform commit

• option: add support for DW5821e commit

• serial: kl5kusb105: remove KLSI device id commit

• serial: pl2303: add a new device id for ATEN commit

• dwc3: Add a glue driver for Synopsys HAPS platform commit

• host: exynos: Remove support for Exynos5440 commit

• usbtmc: Add ioctl for EOM bit commit

• usbtmc: Add ioctl for termination character commit

• usbtmc: Add ioctl for trigger commit

• usbtmc: Add ioctls to set/get usb timeout commit

5. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

• Add SPI controller driver for UniPhier SoC commit

• dw-mmio: add MSCC Ocelot support commit

• pxa2xx: Add support for Intel Ice Lake commit

• spi-gpio: add SPI_3WIRE support commit

6. Watchdog

• Add driver for the MEN 16z069 IP-Core commit

7. Serial

• sh-sci: Add support for R7S9210 commit

• qcom_geni_serial: Add support for flow control commit

8. ACPI, EFI, cpufreq, thermal, Power Management

• ACPI / EC: Add another entry for Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th commit

• thermal: armada: add multi-channel sensors support commit

• thermal: tsens: Add generic support for TSENS v2 IP commit

9. Real Time Clock (RTC)

• isl1208: add support for isl1219 with tamper detection commit

10. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply

• power: reset: qcom-pon: Add Qcom PON driver commit

• power: supply: add cros-ec USBPD charger driver commit

• regulator: Add support for CPCAP regulators on Motorola Xoom devices commit

• regulator: add QCOM RPMh regulator driver commit

• regulator: bd9571mwv: Add support for toggle power switches commit

• regulator: bd9571mwv: Use "backup_mode" sysfs file instead of "wake_up" commit

• regulator: pfuze100: add support to en-/disable switch regulators commit

• regulator: uniphier: add regulator driver for UniPhier SoC commit

11. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)

• ocelot: add support for interrupt controller commit

• intel: Add Ice Lake PCH pin controller support commit

• imx: add driver for i.MX8MQ commit

• berlin: add the as370 SoC pinctrl driver commit

12. Multi Media Card (MMC)

• renesas_sdhi: add eMMC HS400 mode support commit

• sdhci-of-dwcmshc: add SDHCI OF Synopsys DWC MSHC driver commit

• sdhci-pci-dwc-mshc: synopsys dwc mshc support commit

• sdhci-pci: Add support for Intel ICP commit

• sdhci: Add support for O2 eMMC HS200 mode commit

• sdhci: Add support for O2 hardware tuning commit

• tmio: add eMMC HS400 mode support commit

13. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)

• nand: Add core infrastructure to support SPI NANDs commit

• rawnand: add NVIDIA Tegra NAND Flash controller driver commit

• rawnand: atmel: add module param to avoid using dma commit

• spinand: Add initial support for Micron MT29F2G01ABAGD commit, Winbond W25M02GV commit, MX35LF1GE4AB commit, MX35LF2GE4AB commit

• ubi: provide a way to skip CRC checks commit, commit

14. Industrial I/O (iio)

• Add channel for Phase commit

• Add channel for Position Relative commit

• accel: adxl345: add calibration offset support commit

• accel: adxl345: add sampling frequency support commit

• adc: Add Spreadtrum SC27XX PMICs ADC support commit

• adc: at91-sama5d2_adc: add support for position and pressure channels commit

• adxl345: Add support for the ADXL375 commit

• chemical: Add support for Bosch BME680 sensor commit

• dac: Add AD5758 support commit

• light: introduce si1133 commit

• vcnl4000: add VCNL4010 and VCNL4020 device id commit

• vcnl4000: add support for VCNL4200 commit

• ad5686: Add AD5311R support commit

15. Multi Function Devices (MFD)

• Add support for Cirrus Logic CS47L35/L85/L90/L91 codecs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• bd71837: Core driver for ROHM BD71837 PMIC commit

• da9063: Add DA9063L support commit

• intel-lpss: Add Ice Lake PCI IDs commit

16. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)

• mediatek: Add MT7628 support commit

• fsl-ftm: Enable support for the new SoC i.MX8QM commit

17. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)

• Add Actions Semiconductor Owl family S900 I2C driver commit

• Adds an algorithm for an I2C master physically located on an FSI slave device commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• i2c-qcom-geni: Add bus driver for the Qualcomm GENI I2C controller commit

• i801: Add support for Intel Ice Lake commit

• tegra: Add support for Tegra194 commit

18. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)

• Add support for RPi voltage sensor commit

• Add support for power min, lcrit, min_alarm and lcrit_alarm commit

• Add NPCM7xx: PWM and Fan driver commit

• k10temp: Support Threadripper 2920X, 2970WX commit, commit

• mlxreg-fan: Add support for Mellanox FAN driver commit

19. General Purpose I/O (gpio)

• it87: Add support for IT8613 commit

• tegra186: Add support for Tegra194 commit

• mt7621: Add a driver for MT7621 commit

20. Leds

• lm3692x: Support LED sync configuration commit

21. DMA engines

• Add Actions Semi Owl family S900 DMA driver commit

• imx-sdma: add virt-dma support commit

22. Hardware Random Number Generator (hwrng)

• msm: remove msm hw_random driver commit

23. Cryptography hardware acceleration

• Add support for the SHA512 and SHA384 algorithms in the Inside Secure SafeXcel driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Introduce the EIP197d engine support to the Inside Secure SafeXcel driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Adds support for more algorithms in the Inside Secure SafeXcel driver: MD5 (and its hmac), DES (ECB and CBC), and 3DES (ECB and CBC) commit, commit, commit, commit

• ccp: Add support for new CCP/PSP device ID commit

• hisilicon: SEC security accelerator driver commit

• qcom-rng: Add Qcom prng driver commit

24. PCI

• Add pci=disable_acs_redir parameter to disable ACS redirection for peer-to-peer DMA support (we don't have the peer-to-peer support yet; this is just one piece) commit, commit, commit

• AER: Add sysfs attributes for rootport cumulative stats commit

• AER: Add sysfs attributes to provide AER stats and breakdown commit

• kirin: Add MSI support commit

• pciehp: Support interrupts sent from D3hot commit

• hotplug: Delete skeleton driver commit

25. FRU Support Interface (FSI)

• Add new central chardev support commit

• Add cfam char devices commit

• sbefifo: Add driver for the SBE FIFO commit

26. Clock

• Add driver for MAX9485 commit

• actions: Add S700 SoC clock support commit

• at91: add I2S clock mux driver commit

• meson: add axg audio sclk divider driver commit

• meson: add clk-phase clock driver commit

• meson: add triple phase clock driver commit

• qcom: Add display clock controller driver for SDM845 commit

• qcom: clk-rpmh: Add QCOM RPMh clock driver commit

• renesas: Renesas R9A06G032 clock driver commit

• rockchip: add clock controller for px30 commit

• rockchip: add support for half divider commit

• samsung: Remove support for Exynos5440 commit

• tegra: Add sdmmc mux divider clock commit

• timer-mediatek: Add support for system timer commit

• New RISC-V SBI timer driver commit

27. Various

• GNSS receiver (e.g. a GPS receiver) subsystem commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• FPGA Device Feature List (DFL) Device Drivers commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• bus: add bus driver for accessing Allwinner A64 DE2 commit

• cpufreq: armada-37xx: Add AVS support commit

• cpufreq: exynos: Remove support for Exynos5440 commit

• drivers/misc: Aspeed LPC snoop output using misc chardev commit

• drivers: qcom: rpmh-rsc: add RPMH controller for QCOM SoCs commit

• drivers: soc: Add LLCC driver commit

• irqchip: add a SiFive PLIC driver commit

• libnvdimm: Introduce locked DIMM capacity support commit

• mailbox: Add support for i.MX messaging unit commit

• mailbox: mediatek: Add Mediatek CMDQ driver commit

• mailbox: ti-msgmgr: Add support for Secure Proxy commit

• mei: expose fw version to sysfs commit

• mux: adgs1408: new driver for Analog Devices ADGS1408/1409 mux commit

• nvmem: Add Spreadtrum SC27XX efuse support commit

• parport: parport_serial: Add WCH CH382L PCIe single parallel port support commit

• phy: Renesas R-Car gen3 PCIe PHY driver commit

• phy: bcm-sr-pcie: Add Stingray PCIe PHY driver commit

• platform/mellanox: Introduce support for Mellanox register access driver commit

• ptp_qoriq: support automatic configuration for ptp timer commit

• regmap: add SCCB support commit

• remoteproc: qcom: Introduce Hexagon V5 based WCSS driver commit

• reset: meson: add meson audio arb driver commit

• reset: qcom: AOSS (always on subsystem) reset controller commit

• reset: uniphier: add USB3 core reset control commit

• slimbus: ngd: Add qcom SLIMBus NGD driver commit

• slimbus: ngd: add stream support commit

• soc: mediatek: pwrap: add mt6351 driver for mt6797 SoCs commit

• soc: mediatek: pwrap: add pwrap driver for mt6797 SoCs commit

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