<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/caif, branch v5.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'</title>
<updated>2020-06-13T16:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-13T16:50:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a7f7f6248d9740d710fd6bd190293fe5e16410ac'/>
<id>a7f7f6248d9740d710fd6bd190293fe5e16410ac</id>
<content type='text'>
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost</title>
<updated>2020-06-10T20:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-10T20:42:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=09102704c67457c6cdea6c0394c34843484a852c'/>
<id>09102704c67457c6cdea6c0394c34843484a852c</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

 - virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory hotplug

 - support doorbell mapping for vdpa

 - config interrupt support in ifc

 - fixes all over the place

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (40 commits)
  vhost/test: fix up after API change
  virtio_mem: convert device block size into 64bit
  virtio-mem: drop unnecessary initialization
  ifcvf: implement config interrupt in IFCVF
  vhost: replace -1 with VHOST_FILE_UNBIND in ioctls
  vhost_vdpa: Support config interrupt in vdpa
  ifcvf: ignore continuous setting same status value
  virtio-mem: Don't rely on implicit compiler padding for requests
  virtio-mem: Try to unplug the complete online memory block first
  virtio-mem: Use -ETXTBSY as error code if the device is busy
  virtio-mem: Unplug subblocks right-to-left
  virtio-mem: Drop manual check for already present memory
  virtio-mem: Add parent resource for all added "System RAM"
  virtio-mem: Better retry handling
  virtio-mem: Offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks
  mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()
  virtio-mem: Allow to offline partially unplugged memory blocks
  mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 2
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 1
  ...
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<pre>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

 - virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory hotplug

 - support doorbell mapping for vdpa

 - config interrupt support in ifc

 - fixes all over the place

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (40 commits)
  vhost/test: fix up after API change
  virtio_mem: convert device block size into 64bit
  virtio-mem: drop unnecessary initialization
  ifcvf: implement config interrupt in IFCVF
  vhost: replace -1 with VHOST_FILE_UNBIND in ioctls
  vhost_vdpa: Support config interrupt in vdpa
  ifcvf: ignore continuous setting same status value
  virtio-mem: Don't rely on implicit compiler padding for requests
  virtio-mem: Try to unplug the complete online memory block first
  virtio-mem: Use -ETXTBSY as error code if the device is busy
  virtio-mem: Unplug subblocks right-to-left
  virtio-mem: Drop manual check for already present memory
  virtio-mem: Add parent resource for all added "System RAM"
  virtio-mem: Better retry handling
  virtio-mem: Offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks
  mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()
  virtio-mem: Allow to offline partially unplugged memory blocks
  mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 2
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 1
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vhost: revert "vhost: disable for OABI"</title>
<updated>2020-06-02T06:45:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-23T12:36:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=213e77213867e4edbdb342c37ea822feedf4608f'/>
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<content type='text'>
This reverts commit d085eb8ce727 ("vhost: disable for OABI")
With commit "virtio: force spec specified alignment on types"
in place, we force proper alignment for all structures,
so there's no longer a reason to blacklist OABI.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This reverts commit d085eb8ce727 ("vhost: disable for OABI")
With commit "virtio: force spec specified alignment on types"
in place, we force proper alignment for all structures,
so there's no longer a reason to blacklist OABI.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: networking: convert caif files to ReST</title>
<updated>2020-04-28T21:38:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+huawei@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-27T22:01:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=da50d57abd7ecaba151600e726ccb944e7ddf81a'/>
<id>da50d57abd7ecaba151600e726ccb944e7ddf81a</id>
<content type='text'>
There are two text files for caif, plus one already converted
file.

Convert the two remaining ones to ReST, create a new index.rst
file for CAIF, adding it to the main networking documentation
index.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
There are two text files for caif, plus one already converted
file.

Convert the two remaining ones to ReST, create a new index.rst
file for CAIF, adding it to the main networking documentation
index.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vhost: disable for OABI</title>
<updated>2020-04-20T14:19:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-06T12:12:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d085eb8ce727e581abf8145244eaa3339021be2f'/>
<id>d085eb8ce727e581abf8145244eaa3339021be2f</id>
<content type='text'>
vhost is currently broken on the some ARM configs.

The reason is that the ring element addresses are passed between
components with different alignments assumptions. Thus, if
guest selects a pointer and host then gets and dereferences
it, then alignment assumed by the host's compiler might be
greater than the actual alignment of the pointer.
compiler on the host from assuming pointer is aligned.

This actually triggers on ARM with -mabi=apcs-gnu - which is a
deprecated configuration. With this OABI, compiler assumes that
all structures are 4 byte aligned - which is stronger than
virtio guarantees for available and used rings, which are
merely 2 bytes. Thus a guest without -mabi=apcs-gnu running
on top of host with -mabi=apcs-gnu will be broken.

The correct fix is to force alignment of structures - however
that is an intrusive fix that's best deferred until the next release.

We didn't previously support such ancient systems at all - this surfaced
after vdpa support prompted removing dependency of vhost on
VIRTULIZATION. So for now, let's just add something along the lines of

	depends on !ARM || AEABI

to the virtio Kconfig declaration, and add a comment that it has to do
with struct member alignment.

Note: we can't make VHOST and VHOST_RING themselves have
a dependency since these are selected. Add a new symbol for that.

We should be able to drop this dependency down the road.

Fixes: 20c384f1ea1a0bc7 ("vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig")
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Richard Earnshaw &lt;Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
vhost is currently broken on the some ARM configs.

The reason is that the ring element addresses are passed between
components with different alignments assumptions. Thus, if
guest selects a pointer and host then gets and dereferences
it, then alignment assumed by the host's compiler might be
greater than the actual alignment of the pointer.
compiler on the host from assuming pointer is aligned.

This actually triggers on ARM with -mabi=apcs-gnu - which is a
deprecated configuration. With this OABI, compiler assumes that
all structures are 4 byte aligned - which is stronger than
virtio guarantees for available and used rings, which are
merely 2 bytes. Thus a guest without -mabi=apcs-gnu running
on top of host with -mabi=apcs-gnu will be broken.

The correct fix is to force alignment of structures - however
that is an intrusive fix that's best deferred until the next release.

We didn't previously support such ancient systems at all - this surfaced
after vdpa support prompted removing dependency of vhost on
VIRTULIZATION. So for now, let's just add something along the lines of

	depends on !ARM || AEABI

to the virtio Kconfig declaration, and add a comment that it has to do
with struct member alignment.

Note: we can't make VHOST and VHOST_RING themselves have
a dependency since these are selected. Add a new symbol for that.

We should be able to drop this dependency down the road.

Fixes: 20c384f1ea1a0bc7 ("vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig")
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Richard Earnshaw &lt;Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost</title>
<updated>2020-04-08T17:51:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-08T17:51:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9bb715260ed4cef6948cb2e05cf670462367da71'/>
<id>9bb715260ed4cef6948cb2e05cf670462367da71</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

 - Some bug fixes

 - The new vdpa subsystem with two first drivers

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  virtio-balloon: Revert "virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM"
  vdpa: move to drivers/vdpa
  virtio: Intel IFC VF driver for VDPA
  vdpasim: vDPA device simulator
  vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend
  virtio: introduce a vDPA based transport
  vDPA: introduce vDPA bus
  vringh: IOTLB support
  vhost: factor out IOTLB
  vhost: allow per device message handler
  vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig
  virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM
  virtio-net: Introduce hash report feature
  virtio-net: Introduce RSS receive steering feature
  virtio-net: Introduce extended RSC feature
  tools/virtio: option to build an out of tree module
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

 - Some bug fixes

 - The new vdpa subsystem with two first drivers

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  virtio-balloon: Revert "virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM"
  vdpa: move to drivers/vdpa
  virtio: Intel IFC VF driver for VDPA
  vdpasim: vDPA device simulator
  vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend
  virtio: introduce a vDPA based transport
  vDPA: introduce vDPA bus
  vringh: IOTLB support
  vhost: factor out IOTLB
  vhost: allow per device message handler
  vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig
  virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM
  virtio-net: Introduce hash report feature
  virtio-net: Introduce RSS receive steering feature
  virtio-net: Introduce extended RSC feature
  tools/virtio: option to build an out of tree module
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig</title>
<updated>2020-04-01T16:06:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-26T14:01:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=20c384f1ea1a0bc7320bc445c72dd02d2970d594'/>
<id>20c384f1ea1a0bc7320bc445c72dd02d2970d594</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is
not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel
communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without
virtualization support from using vhost.

To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so
CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION.

While at it, also squash Kconfig.vringh into vhost Kconfig file. This
avoids the trick of conditional inclusion from VOP or CAIF. Then it
will be easier to introduce new vringh users and common dependency for
both vringh and vhost.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326140125.19794-2-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is
not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel
communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without
virtualization support from using vhost.

To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so
CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION.

While at it, also squash Kconfig.vringh into vhost Kconfig file. This
avoids the trick of conditional inclusion from VOP or CAIF. Then it
will be easier to introduce new vringh users and common dependency for
both vringh and vhost.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326140125.19794-2-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: caif: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow</title>
<updated>2020-03-16T00:06:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-15T09:34:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=13bde56c5b7cc6489eb50c40449d461c7ca4da2d'/>
<id>13bde56c5b7cc6489eb50c40449d461c7ca4da2d</id>
<content type='text'>
Since snprintf() returns the would-be-output size instead of the
actual output size, the succeeding calls may go beyond the given
buffer limit.  Fix it by replacing with scnprintf().

Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Since snprintf() returns the would-be-output size instead of the
actual output size, the succeeding calls may go beyond the given
buffer limit.  Fix it by replacing with scnprintf().

Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: caif: replace BUG_ON with recovery code</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T00:29:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aditya Pakki</name>
<email>pakki001@umn.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-15T17:51:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c5dea815834c7d2e9fc633785455bc428b7a1956'/>
<id>c5dea815834c7d2e9fc633785455bc428b7a1956</id>
<content type='text'>
In caif_xmit, there is a crash if the ptr dev is NULL. However, by
returning the error to the callers, the error can be handled. The
patch fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki &lt;pakki001@umn.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
In caif_xmit, there is a crash if the ptr dev is NULL. However, by
returning the error to the callers, the error can be handled. The
patch fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki &lt;pakki001@umn.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2019-11-27T19:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T19:06:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9a3d7fd275be4559277667228902824165153c80'/>
<id>9a3d7fd275be4559277667228902824165153c80</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.5-rc1

  There's a few minor cleanups and fixes in here, but the majority of
  the patches in here fall into two buckets:

   - debugfs api cleanups and fixes

   - driver core device link support for boot dependancy issues

  The debugfs api cleanups are working to slowly refactor the debugfs
  apis so that it is even harder to use incorrectly. That work has been
  happening for the past few kernel releases and will continue over
  time, it's a long-term project/goal

  The driver core device link support missed 5.4 by just a bit, so it's
  been sitting and baking for many months now. It's from Saravana Kannan
  to help resolve the problems that DT-based systems have at boot time
  with dependancy graphs and kernel modules. Turns out that no one has
  actually tried to build a generic arm64 kernel with loads of modules
  and have it "just work" for a variety of platforms (like a distro
  kernel). The big problem turned out to be a lack of dependency
  information between different areas of DT entries, and the work here
  resolves that problem and now allows devices to boot properly, and
  quicker than a monolith kernel.

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

* tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (68 commits)
  tracing: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_FS dependency
  of: property: Add device link support for interrupt-parent, dmas and -gpio(s)
  debugfs: Fix !DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_automount
  of: property: Add device link support for "iommu-map"
  of: property: Fix the semantics of of_is_ancestor_of()
  i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info()
  drivers: base: Fix Kconfig indentation
  firmware_loader: Fix labels with comma for builtin firmware
  driver core: Allow device link operations inside sync_state()
  driver core: platform: Declare ret variable only once
  cpu-topology: declare parse_acpi_topology in &lt;linux/arch_topology.h&gt;
  crypto: hisilicon: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  driver core: platform: use the correct callback type for bus_find_device
  firmware_class: make firmware caching configurable
  driver core: Clarify documentation for fwnode_operations.add_links()
  mailbox: tegra: Fix superfluous IRQ error message
  net: caif: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
  mac80211: Use debugfs_create_xul() helper
  media: c8sectpfe: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  of: property: Add device link support for iommus, mboxes and io-channels
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.5-rc1

  There's a few minor cleanups and fixes in here, but the majority of
  the patches in here fall into two buckets:

   - debugfs api cleanups and fixes

   - driver core device link support for boot dependancy issues

  The debugfs api cleanups are working to slowly refactor the debugfs
  apis so that it is even harder to use incorrectly. That work has been
  happening for the past few kernel releases and will continue over
  time, it's a long-term project/goal

  The driver core device link support missed 5.4 by just a bit, so it's
  been sitting and baking for many months now. It's from Saravana Kannan
  to help resolve the problems that DT-based systems have at boot time
  with dependancy graphs and kernel modules. Turns out that no one has
  actually tried to build a generic arm64 kernel with loads of modules
  and have it "just work" for a variety of platforms (like a distro
  kernel). The big problem turned out to be a lack of dependency
  information between different areas of DT entries, and the work here
  resolves that problem and now allows devices to boot properly, and
  quicker than a monolith kernel.

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

* tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (68 commits)
  tracing: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_FS dependency
  of: property: Add device link support for interrupt-parent, dmas and -gpio(s)
  debugfs: Fix !DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_automount
  of: property: Add device link support for "iommu-map"
  of: property: Fix the semantics of of_is_ancestor_of()
  i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info()
  drivers: base: Fix Kconfig indentation
  firmware_loader: Fix labels with comma for builtin firmware
  driver core: Allow device link operations inside sync_state()
  driver core: platform: Declare ret variable only once
  cpu-topology: declare parse_acpi_topology in &lt;linux/arch_topology.h&gt;
  crypto: hisilicon: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  driver core: platform: use the correct callback type for bus_find_device
  firmware_class: make firmware caching configurable
  driver core: Clarify documentation for fwnode_operations.add_links()
  mailbox: tegra: Fix superfluous IRQ error message
  net: caif: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
  mac80211: Use debugfs_create_xul() helper
  media: c8sectpfe: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  of: property: Add device link support for iommus, mboxes and io-channels
  ...
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