backport support for userspace access of DP aux devices

[Mario Limonciello]

Can you please backport these commits into xenial to allow manipulate the DPCD registers of relevant devices in userspace?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e94cb37b34eb8a88fe847438dba55c3f18bf024a
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/36230cb5668c2633bee4ec87b58983eac3a5cb4c

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1619756

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

I can confirm that 4.4.0-41-generic #61 provides these interfaces properly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-42.62

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linux (4.4.0-42.62) xenial; urgency=low

  * Fix GRO recursion overflow for tunneling protocols (LP: #1631287)
    - tunnels: Don't apply GRO to multiple layers of encapsulation.
    - gro: Allow tunnel stacking in the case of FOU/GUE

  * CVE-2016-7039
    - SAUCE: net: add recursion limit to GRO

linux (4.4.0-41.61) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1628204

  * nvme drive probe failure (LP: #1626894)
    - (fix) NVMe: Don't unmap controller registers on reset

linux (4.4.0-40.60) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1627074

  * Permission denied in CIFS with kernel 4.4.0-38 (LP: #1626112)
    - Fix memory leaks in cifs_do_mount()
    - Compare prepaths when comparing superblocks
    - SAUCE: Fix regression which breaks DFS mounting

  * Backlight does not change when adjust it higher than 50% after S3
    (LP: #1625932)
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915/backlight: setup and cache pwm alternate
      increment value
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915/backlight: setup backlight pwm alternate
      increment on backlight enable

linux (4.4.0-39.59) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Joseph Salisbury ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1625303

  * thunder: chip errata w/ multiple CQEs for a TSO packet (LP: #1624569)
    - net: thunderx: Fix for issues with multiple CQEs posted for a TSO packet

  * thunder: faulty TSO padding (LP: #1623627)
    - net: thunderx: Fix for HW issue while padding TSO packet

  * CVE-2016-6828
    - tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()

  * Sennheiser Officerunner - cannot get freq at ep 0x83 (LP: #1622763)
    - SAUCE: (no-up) ALSA: usb-audio: Add quirk for sennheiser officerunner

  * Backport E3 Skylake Support in ie31200_edac to Xenial (LP: #1619766)
    - EDAC, ie31200_edac: Add Skylake support

  * Ubuntu 16.04 - Full EEH Recovery Support for NVMe devices (LP: #1602724)
    - SAUCE: nvme: Don't suspend admin queue that wasn't created

  * ISST-LTE:pNV: system ben is hung during ST (nvme) (LP: #1620317)
    - blk-mq: Allow timeouts to run while queue is freezing
    - blk-mq: improve warning for running a queue on the wrong CPU
    - blk-mq: don't overwrite rq->mq_ctx

  * lsattr 32bit does not work on 64bit kernel (Inappropriate ioctl error)
    (LP: #1619918)
    - btrfs: bugfix: handle FS_IOC32_{GETFLAGS, SETFLAGS, GETVERSION} in
      btrfs_ioctl

  * radeon: monitor connected to onboard VGA doesn't work with Xenial
    (LP: #1600092)
    - drm/radeon/dp: add back special handling for NUTMEG

  * initramfs includes qle driver, but not firmware (LP: #1623187)
    - qed: add MODULE_FIRMWARE()

  * [Hyper-V] Rebase Hyper-V to 4.7.2 (stable) (LP: #1616677)
    - hv_netvsc: Implement support for VF drivers on Hyper-V
    - hv_netvsc: Fix the list processing for network change event
    - Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce functions for estimating room in the ring
      buffer
    - Drivers: hv: vmbus: Use READ_ONCE() to read variables that are volatile
    - Drivers: hv: vmbus: Export the vmbus_set_event() API
    - lcoking/barriers, arch: Use smp barriers...

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

the commits are in 4.8 which is in yakkety, closing