Here's some small fixes for 5.10-rc2 and a big driver removal.
The fixes are for some reported issues in the interconnect and coresight
drivers, nothing major.
The "big" driver removal is the MIC drivers have been asked to be
removed as the hardware never shipped and Intel no longer wants to
maintain something that no one can use. This is welcomed by many as the
DMA usage of these drivers was "interesting" and the security people
were starting to question some issues that were starting to be found in
the codebase.
Note, one of the subsystems for this driver, the "VOP" code, will
probably come back in future kernel versions as it was looking to
potentially solve some PCIe virtualization issues that a number of other
vendors were wanting to solve. But as-is, this codebase didn't work for
anyone else so no actual functionality is being removed.
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-5.10-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc fixes/removals from Greg KH:
"Here's some small fixes for 5.10-rc2 and a big driver removal.
The fixes are for some reported issues in the interconnect and
coresight drivers, nothing major.
The "big" driver removal is the MIC drivers have been asked to be
removed as the hardware never shipped and Intel no longer wants to
maintain something that no one can use. This is welcomed by many as
the DMA usage of these drivers was "interesting" and the security
people were starting to question some issues that were starting to be
found in the codebase.
Note, one of the subsystems for this driver, the "VOP" code, will
probably come back in future kernel versions as it was looking to
potentially solve some PCIe virtualization issues that a number of
other vendors were wanting to solve. But as-is, this codebase didn't
work for anyone else so no actual functionality is being removed.
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'char-misc-5.10-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
coresight: cti: Initialize dynamic sysfs attributes
coresight: Fix uninitialised pointer bug in etm_setup_aux()
coresight: add module license
misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers
interconnect: qcom: use icc_sync state for sm8[12]50
interconnect: qcom: Ensure that the floor bandwidth value is enforced
interconnect: qcom: sc7180: Init BCMs before creating the nodes
interconnect: qcom: sdm845: Init BCMs before creating the nodes
interconnect: Aggregate before setting initial bandwidth
interconnect: qcom: sdm845: Enable keepalive for the MM1 BCM