Merge tag 'char-misc-4.16-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 pull request for char/misc drivers for

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.16-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 pull request for char/misc drivers for 4.16-rc1.

There's a lot of stuff in here. Three new driver subsystems were added
for various types of hardware busses:

- siox
- slimbus
- soundwire

as well as a new vboxguest subsystem for the VirtualBox hypervisor
drivers.

There's also big updates from the FPGA subsystem, lots of Android
binder fixes, the usual handful of hyper-v updates, and lots of other
smaller driver updates.

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

* tag 'char-misc-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (155 commits)
char: lp: use true or false for boolean values
android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area
android: binder: Use true and false for boolean values
lkdtm: fix handle_irq_event symbol for INT_HW_IRQ_EN
EISA: Delete error message for a failed memory allocation in eisa_probe()
EISA: Whitespace cleanup
misc: remove AVR32 dependencies
virt: vbox: Add error mapping for VERR_INVALID_NAME and VERR_NO_MORE_FILES
soundwire: Fix a signedness bug
uio_hv_generic: fix new type mismatch warnings
uio_hv_generic: fix type mismatch warnings
auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
uio_hv_generic: add rescind support
uio_hv_generic: check that host supports monitor page
uio_hv_generic: create send and receive buffers
uio: document uio_hv_generic regions
doc: fix documentation about uio_hv_generic
vmbus: add monitor_id and subchannel_id to sysfs per channel
vmbus: fix ABI documentation
uio_hv_generic: use ISR callback method
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slimbus: qcom: Add Qualcomm Slimbus controller driver

This controller driver programs manager, interface, and framer
devices for Qualcomm's slimbus HW block.
Manager component currently implements l

slimbus: qcom: Add Qualcomm Slimbus controller driver

This controller driver programs manager, interface, and framer
devices for Qualcomm's slimbus HW block.
Manager component currently implements logical address setting,
and messaging interface.
Interface device reports bus synchronization information, and framer
device clocks the bus from the time it's woken up, until clock-pause
is executed by the manager device.

Signed-off-by: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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slimbus: Add support for 'clock-pause' feature

Per SLIMbus specification, a reconfiguration sequence known as
'clock pause' needs to be broadcast over the bus while entering low-
power mode. Clock-p

slimbus: Add support for 'clock-pause' feature

Per SLIMbus specification, a reconfiguration sequence known as
'clock pause' needs to be broadcast over the bus while entering low-
power mode. Clock-pause is initiated by the controller driver.
To exit clock-pause, controller typically wakes up the framer device.
Since wakeup precedure is controller-specific, framework calls it via
controller's function pointer to invoke it.

Signed-off-by: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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slimbus: Add messaging APIs to slimbus framework

SLIMbus devices use value-element, and information elements to
control device parameters (e.g. value element is used to represent
gain for codec, inf

slimbus: Add messaging APIs to slimbus framework

SLIMbus devices use value-element, and information elements to
control device parameters (e.g. value element is used to represent
gain for codec, information element is used to represent interrupt
status for codec when codec interrupt fires).
Messaging APIs are used to set/get these value and information
elements. SLIMbus specification uses 8-bit "transaction IDs" for
messages where a read-value is anticipated. Framework uses a table
of pointers to store those TIDs and responds back to the caller in
O(1).
Caller can do synchronous and asynchronous reads/writes.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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slimbus: Add SLIMbus bus type

SLIMbus (Serial Low Power Interchip Media Bus) is a specification
developed by MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) alliance.
SLIMbus is a 2-wire implementation,

slimbus: Add SLIMbus bus type

SLIMbus (Serial Low Power Interchip Media Bus) is a specification
developed by MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) alliance.
SLIMbus is a 2-wire implementation, which is used to communicate with
peripheral components like audio-codec.
SLIMbus uses Time-Division-Multiplexing to accommodate multiple data
channels, and control channel. Control channel has messages to do
device-enumeration, messages to send/receive control-data to/from
SLIMbus devices, messages for port/channel management, and messages to
do bandwidth allocation.
The framework supports multiple instances of the bus (1 controller per
bus), and multiple slave devices per controller.

This patch adds support to basic silmbus core which includes support to
SLIMbus type, slimbus device registeration and some basic data structures.

Signed-off-by: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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