• Linux_5.3

Linux 5.3 changelog.

This changelog is still not complete. Meanwhile, you can read about Linux 5.3 here:

• LWN's merge window part 1, part 2

• Phoronix: The New Features & Improvements Of The Linux 5.3 Kernel

Or, instead, take a look at the individual pull requests:

• arm64 updates

• m68k updates

• s390 updates

• debugobjects updates

• Reed-Solomon library updates

• SMP/hotplug updates

• irq updates

• timer updates

• x96 apic updates

• x86 vsyscall updates

• x86 FPU updates

• x86 CPU feature updates

• x86 timer updates

• x86 pti updates

• RCU updates

• locking updates

• RAS updates

• scheduler updates

• x86 asm updates

• x86 build updates

• x86 cache resource control update

• x86 AVX512 status update

• x86 paravirt updates

• x86 platform updayes

• x86 topology updates

• tpm updates

• audit updates

• selinux updates

• misc keyring updates

• request_key improvements

• keyring namespacing

• keyring ACL support

• integrity updates

• crypto updates

• ARM updates

• workqueue updates

• cgroup updates

• force_sig() argument change

• pwm updates

• LED updates

• ic3 updates

• GPIO updates

• regmap updates

• regulator updates

• spi updates

• iommu updates

• EDAC updates

• media updates

• fbdev updates

• sound updates

• power management updates

• ACPI updates

• device properties framework updates

• block updates

• libata updates

• perf updates

• x86 boot updates

• x865 kdump updates

• parisc updates

• capabilities update

• printk updates

• Documentation updates

• file locking updates

• fsnotify updates

• ext2, udf and quota updates

• iomap updates

• copy_file_range updates

• fscrypt updates

• afs updates

• ext4 updates

• gfs2 updates

• nfsd updates

• m68nommu updates

• pidfd updates

• clone3 system call

• networking updates

• pstore updates

• security/loadpin updates

• hwmon updates

• SCSI updates

• SCSI scatter-gather list updates

• livepatching updates

• HID updates

• char / misc driver updates

• staging and IIO driver updates

• tty / serial driver updates

• USB / PHY updates

• MMC updates

• Devicetree updates

• chrome platform updates

• updates from akpm

• driver core and debugfs updates

• dma-mapping updates

• hyper-v updates

• KVM updates

• arch/nios2 updates

• more s390 updates

• asm-generic updates

• Kbuild updates

• Kconfig updates

• Kselftest updates

• common SETFLAGS/FSSETXATTR parameter checking

• xfs updates

• f2fs updates

• 9p updates

• dlm updates

• io_uring updates

• input updates

• pin control updates

• IPMI updates

• device mapper updates

• MTD updates

• sparc updates

• powerpc updates

• percpu updates

• mailbox updates

• x86 platform driver updates

• stream_open() updates

• UML updates

• UBIFS updates

• eCryptfs updates

• HMM updates

• drm updates

• MFD updates

• rdma updates

• PCI updates

• power supply and reset updates

• i2c updates

• more block updates

• backlight updates

• safesetid updates

• Xtensa updates

• rst conversion of docs

• ARC updates

• btrfs updates

• more updates from akpm

• SH updates

• h8300 update

• MIPS updates

• dmaengine updates

• RTC updates

• clk updates

• VFIO updates

• virtio, vhost updates

• rpmsg updates

• remoteproc updates

• hwspinlock updates

• thermal management updates

• another x86 platform driver update

• more ACPI updates

• more power management updates

• watchdog updates

• libnvdimm updates

• dax updates

• ceph updates

• cifs updates

• swiotlb updates

• tracing updates

• module updates

• RISC-V updates

• NFS client updates

• more device mapper updates

• yet more updates from akpm

• vfs mount updates

• adfs updates

• misc vfs updates

• iomap split/cleanup

• xen updates

• arch/csky pupdates

• ARM SoC platform updates

• ARM SoC-related driver updates

• ARM Devicetree updates

• ARM SoC defconfig updates

• dcache and mountpoint updates

• more Kbuild updates

• more KVM updates

• CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT stub config

• perf tooling updates

• more input updates

• NTB updates

• ARC updates

1. Real Time Clock (RTC)

• bd70528: Initial support for ROHM bd70528 RTC commit

• imx-sc: add rtc alarm support commit

• pcf2123: add alarm support commit and remove sysfs register view commit

• rk808: Add RK809 and RK817 support commit

• tegra: Turn into regular driver commit

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

• power

  • reset: nvmem-reboot-mode: use NVMEM as reboot mode write interface commit

  • supply: Add HWMON compatibility layer commit

  • supply: Initial support for ROHM BD70528 PMIC charger block commit

  • supply: add input power and voltage limit properties commit

  • power_supply: wilco_ec: Add charging config driver commit

• regulator

  • Add support for the stm32-booster commit

  • arizona-ldo1: Add support for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs commit

  • arizona-micsupp: Add support for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs commit

  • lm363x: Add support for LM36274 commit

  • lp87565: Add 4-phase lp87561 regulator support commit

  • max77620: Support Maxim 77663 commit

  • qcom_spmi: Add support for PM8005 commit and add PMS405 SPMI regulator commit

  • rk808: Add RK809 and RK817 support commit

  • s2mps11: Adjust supported buck voltages to real values commit

  • slg51000: add slg51000 regulator driver commit

• reset: qcom-pon: Add support for gen2 pon commit

3. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)

• Add drive strength support for BM1880 SoC commit

• Add pinconf support for BM1880 SoC commit

• freescale: Add i.MX8MN pinctrl driver support commit

• meson: add output support in pinconf commit and add support of drive-strength-microamp commit

• mvebu: Add support for MV98DX1135 commit

• qcom: Add SM8150 pinctrl driver commit

• tegra: Add Tegra194 pinmux driver commit

4. Multi Media Card (MMC)

• sdhci-pci: Add support for Intel EHL commit

• sdhci-sprd: Add optional gate clock support commit and add pin control support for voltage switch commit

• sdhci_am654: Add Support for 4 bit IP on J721E commit and 8 bit IP on J721E commit

5. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)

• Add Initial Hyperbus support commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• onenand: Add support for 8Gb datasize onenand commit

• rawnand: Add Macronix NAND read retry support commit

• rawnand: brcmnand: Add support for v7.3 controller commit

• spi-nor: Add Micron MT25QL02 support commit

• spi-nor: Add Winbond w25q16jv support commit

• spi-nor: intel-spi: Add support for Intel Elkhart Lake SPI serial flash commit

• spi-nor: stm32: remove the driver as it was replaced by spi-stm32-qspi.c commit

• spinand: Add initial support for Paragon PN26G0xA commit

• spinand: Add support for GigaDevice GD5F1GQ4UFxxG commit

• spinand: Add support for two-byte device IDs commit

6. Industrial I/O (iio)

• Add driver for Infineon DPS310 commit

• accel: add missing sensor for some 2-in-1 based ultrabooks commit

• adc: ad7124: Add buffered input support commit

• adc: mediatek: mt6577-auxadc, add mt6765 support commit

• adc: stm32-dfsdm: add fast mode support commit

• amplifiers: ad8366: Add support for ADL5240 VGA commit and for the ADA4961 DGA commit

• cros_ec: Add lid angle driver commit

• cros_ec: add 'id' sysfs entry commit

• dps310: Add pressure sensing capability commit

• frequency: adf4371: Add support for ADF4371 PLL commit, ADF4372 PLL commit and for output stage mute commit

• light: stk3310: Add support for stk3335 commit

7. Multi Function Devices (MFD)

• ti-lmu: Add LM36274 support to the ti-lmu commit

• ti-lmu: Remove support for LM3697 commit

• cros_ec_debugfs: Expose resume result via debugfs commit

• lp87565: Add support for 4-phase LP87561 combination commit

• bd70528: Support ROHM bd70528 PMIC core commit

• rk808: Add RK817 and RK809 support commit

• intel-lpss: Add Intel Elkhart Lake PCH PCI IDs commit

• madera: Add Madera core support for CS47L15 commit and CS47L92 commit

8. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)

• Add support referencing PWMs from ACPI commit

• sifive: Add a driver for SiFive SoC PWM commit

9. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)

• regmap: add i3c bus support commit

• Add support for IPMB driver commit

• i801: Add Block Write-Block Read Process Call support commit

• i801: Add support for Intel Elkhart Lake commit and Intel Tiger Lake commit

• mt7621: Add MediaTek MT7621/7628/7688 I2C driver commit

• ocores: add support for i2c device on Sifive FU540-c000 SoC commit

10. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)

• pmbus: Add Infineon PXE1610 VR driver commit

• pmbus: Add Infineon IRPS5401 driver commit

11. General Purpose I/O (gpio)

• Initial support for ROHM bd70528 GPIO block commit

• mb86s7x: Enable ACPI support commit

• pca953x: Add support for the TI TCA9539 commit

12. Leds

• TI LMU: Add common code for TI LMU devices commit

• lm36274: Introduce the TI LM36274 LED driver commit

• lm3697: Introduce the lm3697 driver commit

• spi-byte: add single byte SPI LED driver commit

13. DMA engines

• Add Synopsys eDMA IP driver commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• mediatek: Add MediaTek UART APDMA support commit

• sudmac: remove unused driver commit

• sun6i: Add support for H6 DMA commit

14. Hardware Random Number Generator (hwrng)

• iproc-rng200: Add support for 7211 commit

15. Cryptography hardware acceleration

• atmel-i2c: add support for SHA204A random number generator commit

• inside-secure: add support for HMAC updates commit

• inside-secure: implement IV retrieval commit

16. PCI

• MSI: Support allocating virtual MSI interrupts commit

• switchtec: Add module parameter to request more interrupts commit

• Enable NVIDIA HDA controllers commit

• qcom: Add QCS404 PCIe controller support commit

• tegra: Add PCIe Gen2 link speed support commit

• tegra: Enable Relaxed Ordering only for Tegra20 & Tegra30 commit

17. Clock

• Add Si5341/Si5340 driver commit

• Add clk_parent entry in debugfs commit

• RK808: Add RK809 and RK817 support commit

• add BCM63XX gated clock controller driver commit

• at91: sckc: add support for SAM9X60 commit

• bcm283x: add driver interfacing with Raspberry Pi's firmware commit

• bd718x7: Support ROHM BD70528 clk block commit

• clk-si544: Implement small frequency change support commit

• kirkwood: Add support for MV98DX1135 commit

• mediatek: add audsys clock driver for MT8516 commit

• meson-g12a: add temperature sensor clocks commit

• meson: g12a: Add support for G12B CPUB clocks commit

• qoriq: add support for lx2160a commit

• sysctr: Add nxp system counter timer driver support commit

18. PHY ("physical layer" framework)

• qcom: Add Qualcomm PCIe2 PHY driver commit

• Add driver for mixel mipi dphy found on NXP's i.MX8 SoCs commit

19. EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)

• altera: Add Stratix10 OCRAM & SDMMC EDAC Support commit

• i10nm: Add Intel additional Ice-Lake support commit

• ie31200: Add Intel Coffee Lake CPU support commit

• sifive: Add EDAC platform driver for SiFive SoCs commit

20. Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB)

• Support using MSI interrupts in ntb_transport commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

21. Various

• PCI: Add Synopsys endpoint EDDA Device ID commit

• extcon: Add fsa9480 extcon driver commit

• firmware: ti_sci: Add resource management APIs for ringacc, psi-l and udma commit

• firmware: ti_sci: Add support for processor control commit

• habanalabs: Add busy engines bitmask to HW idle IOCTL commit

• habanalabs: Add debugfs node for engines status commit

• hwspinlock/omap: Add support for TI K3 SoCs commit

• iommu/vt-d: Add debugfs support to show scalable mode DMAR table internals commit

• iommu: Add recoverable fault reporting commit

• iommu: Introduce IOMMU_RESV_DIRECT_RELAXABLE reserved memory regions commit

• irqchip/al-fic: Introduce Amazon's Annapurna Labs Fabric Interrupt Controller Driver commit

• irqchip/exiu: Implement ACPI support commit

• irqchip/gic-v2m: Add support for Amazon Graviton variant of GICv3+GICv2m commit

• irqchip: Add Renesas RZ/A1 Interrupt Controller driver commit

• mailbox: omap: Add support for TI K3 SoCs commit

• memory: jz4780_nemc: Add support for the JZ4740 commit

• memory: jz4780_nemc: Add support for the JZ4740 commit

• misc: fsa9480: Delete this driver commit

• misc: xilinx-sdfec: add core driver commit

• misc: xilinx_sdfec: Add CCF support commit

• nvmem: imx-ocotp: Add i.MX8MM support commit

• nvmem: imx: add i.MX8 nvmem driver commit

• pinctrl: generic: add new 'drive-strength-microamp' property support commit

• remoteproc: stm32: add an ST stm32_rproc driver commit

• soc: amlogic: canvas: add support for Meson8, Meson8b and Meson8m2 commit

• soc: fsl: add DPAA2 console support commit

• soc: imx: Add SCU SoC info driver support commit

• soc: qcom: Add AOSS QMP driver commit

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