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Linus Torvalds 457fa3469a Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1
Here is the big set of char and misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1.
 
 Lots of different types of driver things in here, as this tree seems to
 be the "collection of various driver subsystems not big enough to have
 their own git tree" lately.
 
 Anyway, some highlights of the changes in here:
   - binderfs: is it a rule that all driver subsystems will eventually
     grow to have their own filesystem?  Binder now has one to handle the
     use of it in containerized systems.  This was discussed at the
     Plumbers conference a few months ago and knocked into mergable shape
     very fast by Christian Brauner.  Who also has signed up to be
     another binder maintainer, showing a distinct lack of good judgement :)
   - binder updates and fixes
   - mei driver updates
   - fpga driver updates and additions
   - thunderbolt driver updates
   - soundwire driver updates
   - extcon driver updates
   - nvmem driver updates
   - hyper-v driver updates
   - coresight driver updates
   - pvpanic driver additions and reworking for more device support
   - lp driver updates.  Yes really, it's _finally_ moved to the proper
     parallal port driver model, something I never thought I would see
     happen.  Good stuff.
   - other tiny driver updates and fixes.
 
 All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
 issues.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of char and misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1.

  Lots of different types of driver things in here, as this tree seems
  to be the "collection of various driver subsystems not big enough to
  have their own git tree" lately.

  Anyway, some highlights of the changes in here:

   - binderfs: is it a rule that all driver subsystems will eventually
     grow to have their own filesystem? Binder now has one to handle the
     use of it in containerized systems.

     This was discussed at the Plumbers conference a few months ago and
     knocked into mergable shape very fast by Christian Brauner. Who
     also has signed up to be another binder maintainer, showing a
     distinct lack of good judgement :)

   - binder updates and fixes

   - mei driver updates

   - fpga driver updates and additions

   - thunderbolt driver updates

   - soundwire driver updates

   - extcon driver updates

   - nvmem driver updates

   - hyper-v driver updates

   - coresight driver updates

   - pvpanic driver additions and reworking for more device support

   - lp driver updates. Yes really, it's _finally_ moved to the proper
     parallal port driver model, something I never thought I would see
     happen. Good stuff.

   - other tiny driver updates and fixes.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (116 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add another Android binder maintainer
  intel_th: msu: Fix an off-by-one in attribute store
  stm class: Add a reference to the SyS-T document
  stm class: Fix a module refcount leak in policy creation error path
  char: lp: use new parport device model
  char: lp: properly count the lp devices
  char: lp: use first unused lp number while registering
  char: lp: detach the device when parallel port is removed
  char: lp: introduce list to save port number
  bus: qcom: remove duplicated include from qcom-ebi2.c
  VMCI: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation
  char/rtc: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons
  misc: mic: fix a DMA pool free failure
  ptp: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check
  genwqe: Fix size check
  binder: implement binderfs
  binder: fix use-after-free due to ksys_close() during fdget()
  bus: fsl-mc: remove duplicated include files
  bus: fsl-mc: explicitly define the fsl_mc_command endianness
  misc: ti-st: make array read_ver_cmd static, shrinks object size
  ...
2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
Documentation Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
block SCSI misc on 20181224 2018-12-28 14:48:06 -08:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-12-27 13:53:32 -08:00
drivers Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
include Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
init Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux 2018-12-28 20:08:34 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel Driver core patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:44:29 -08:00
lib Driver core patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:44:29 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-12-28 16:55:46 -08:00
net Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-12-28 16:55:46 -08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.21 2018-12-28 19:41:58 -08:00
scripts Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux 2018-12-28 20:08:34 -08:00
security Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-12-28 16:55:46 -08:00
sound xen: features and fixes for 4.21 2018-12-26 11:35:07 -08:00
tools Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end callback 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap Merge tag 'nand/for-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd into mtd/next 2018-12-18 19:59:16 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
Makefile Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux 2018-12-28 20:08:34 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.