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Linus Torvalds d01e4afdbb Merge tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC cleanups on various subarchitectures from Olof Johansson:
 "Cleanup patches for various ARM platforms and some of their associated
  drivers.  There's also a branch in here that enables Freescale i.MX to
  be part of the multiplatform support -- the first "big" SoC that is
  moved over (more multiplatform work comes in a separate branch later
  during the merge window)."

Conflicts fixed as per Olof, including a silent semantic one in
arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c (omap_prcm_restart() was renamed to
omap3xxx_restart(), and a new user of the old name was added).

* tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (189 commits)
  ARM: omap: fix typo on timer cleanup
  ARM: EXYNOS: Remove unused regs-mem.h file
  ARM: EXYNOS: Remove unused non-dt support for dwmci controller
  ARM: Kirkwood: Use hw_pci.ops instead of hw_pci.scan
  ARM: OMAP3: cm-t3517: use GPTIMER for system clock
  ARM: OMAP2+: timer: remove CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER
  ARM: SAMSUNG: use devm_ functions for ADC driver
  ARM: EXYNOS: no duplicate mask/unmask in eint0_15
  ARM: S3C24XX: SPI clock channel setup is fixed for S3C2443
  ARM: EXYNOS: Remove i2c0 resource information and setting of device names
  ARM: Kirkwood: checkpatch cleanups
  ARM: Kirkwood: Fix sparse warnings.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Remove unused includes
  ARM: kirkwood: cleanup lsxl board includes
  ARM: integrator: use BUG_ON where possible
  ARM: integrator: push down SC dependencies
  ARM: integrator: delete static UART1 mapping
  ARM: integrator: delete SC mapping on the CP
  ARM: integrator: remove static CP syscon mapping
  ARM: integrator: remove static AP syscon mapping
  ...
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NVEC: An NVidia compliant Embedded Controller Protocol Implemenation

This is an implementation of the NVEC protocol used to communicate with an
embedded controller (EC) via I2C bus. The EC is an I2C master while the host
processor is the I2C slave. Requests from the host processor to the EC are
started by triggering a gpio line.

There is no written documentation of the protocol available to the public,
but the source code[1] of the published nvec reference drivers can be a guide.
This driver is currently only used by the AC100 project[2], but it is likely,
that other Tegra boards (not yet mainlined, if ever) also use it.

[1] e.g. http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=arch/arm/mach-tegra/nvec;hb=android-tegra-2.6.32
[2] http://gitorious.org/ac100, http://launchpad.net/ac100