Improve the changelog for 4.0.5

- Add some architecture qualifications
- Note when regressions were introduced
- Delete changes that are minor or irrelevant for Debian

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debian/changelog

@@ -2,152 +2,78 @@ linux (4.0.5-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream stable update:
     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.5
-    - mnt: Fail collect_mounts when applied to unmounted mounts
-    - fs_pin: Allow for the possibility that m_list or s_list go unused.
-    - [x86] iommu/amd: Fix bug in put_pasid_state_wait
-    - [armhf] iommu/arm-smmu: Fix sign-extension of upstream bus addresses at
-      stage 1
-    - [x86] Revert "KVM: x86: drop fpu_activate hook"
-    - [x86] mce: Fix MCE severity messages
-    - [x86] fpu: Disable XSAVES* support for now
-    - [x86] KVM: MMU: fix CR4.SMEP=1, CR0.WP=0 with shadow pages
+    - [x86] iommu/amd: Fix bug in put_pasid_state_wait (regression in 4.0)
+    - [x86] fpu: Disable XSAVES* support for now (regression in 3.17)
     - [x86] KVM: MMU: fix smap permission check
     - [x86] kvm: fix crash in kvm_vcpu_reload_apic_access_page
     - [x86] KVM: MMU: fix SMAP virtualization
-    - [x86] kvm/fpu: Enable eager restore kvm FPU for MPX
-    - ktime: Fix ktime_divns to do signed division
-    - fs, omfs: add NULL terminator in the end up the token list
-    - omfs: fix sign confusion for bitmap loop counter
+    - ktime: Fix ktime_divns to do signed division (regression in 3.17)
+    - omfs: fix sign confusion for bitmap loop counter (regression in 3.18)
     - xfs: xfs_attr_inactive leaves inconsistent attr fork state behind
-    - xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno
-    - ovl: don't remove non-empty opaque directory
-    - ovl: mount read-only if workdir can't be created
-    - mfd: da9052: Fix broken regulator probe
+    - xfs: xfs_iozero can return positive errno (regression in 3.17)
+    - ovl: don't remove non-empty opaque directory (regression in 4.0)
+    - [armhf] mfd: da9052: Fix broken regulator probe (regression in 3.19)
     - libceph: request a new osdmap if lingering request maps to no osd
     - Revert "libceph: clear r_req_lru_item in __unregister_linger_request()"
+      (regression in 3.18)
     - Btrfs: fix racy system chunk allocation when setting block group ro
+      (regression in 4.0)
     - xen/events: don't bind non-percpu VIRQs with percpu chip
-    - hwmon: (ntc_thermistor) Ensure iio channel is of type IIO_VOLTAGE
-    - iio/axp288_adc: add missing channel info mask
-    - iio:st_sensors: Fix oops when probing SPI devices
-    - iio: light: hid-sensor-prox: Fix modifier
-    - iio: pressure: hid-sensor-press: Fix modifier
-    - iio: adc: spmi-vadc: Fix overflow in output value normalization
-    - iio: adc: cc10001: Fix the channel number mapping
-    - iio: adc: cc10001: Fix incorrect use of power-up/power-down register
-    - iio: adc: cc10001: Add delay before setting START bit
-    - iio: adc: cc10001: Fix regulator_get_voltage() return value check
-    - iio: adc: xilinx: Fix register addresses
-    - iio: adc: xilinx: Fix "vccaux" channel .address
-    - iio: adc: xilinx: Fix VREFP scale
-    - iio: adc: xilinx: Fix VREFN sign
     - hwmon: (tmp401) Do not auto-detect chip on I2C address 0x37
-    - hwmon: (nct6775) Add missing sysfs attribute initialization
-    - hwmon: (nct6683) Add missing sysfs attribute initialization
-    - clk: exynos5420: Restore GATE_BUS_TOP on suspend
     - clk: add missing lock when call clk_core_enable in clk_set_parent
+      (regression in 4.0)
     - brcmfmac: avoid null pointer access when brcmf_msgbuf_get_pktid() fails
     - lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum
-    - d_walk() might skip too much
+    - vfs: d_walk() might skip too much
     - module: Call module notifier on failure after complete_formation()
-    - ALSA: usb-audio: Add quirk for MS LifeCam Studio
-    - ALSA: hda - Add Conexant codecs CX20721, CX20722, CX20723 and CX20724
-    - ALSA: hda - Add headphone quirk for Lifebook E752
-    - ALSA: hda - Add headset mic quirk for Dell Inspiron 5548
-    - ALSA: hda/realtek - ALC292 dock fix for Thinkpad L450
-    - ALSA: usb-audio: Add quirk for MS LifeCam HD-3000
+      (regression in 3.16)
     - Revert "ALSA: hda - Add mute-LED mode control to Thinkpad"
-    - ALSA: hda - Fix noise on AMD radeon 290x controller
-    - ASoC: mc13783: Fix wrong mask value used in mc13xxx_reg_rmw() calls
-    - ASoC: uda1380: Avoid accessing i2c bus when codec is disabled
-    - ASoC: dapm: Modify widget stream name according to prefix
-    - ASoC: wm8960: fix "RINPUT3" audio route error
-    - ASoC: wm8994: correct BCLK DIV 348 to 384
-    - RDMA/core: Fix for parsing netlink string attribute
-    - staging: gdm724x: Correction of variable usage after applying ALIGN()
-    - staging: vt6656: use ieee80211_tx_info to select packet type.
-    - staging: vt6655: device_free_tx_buf use only ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
-    - staging: vt6655: implement IEEE80211_TX_STAT_NOACK_TRANSMITTED
-    - staging: vt6655: Fix 80211 control and management status reporting.
-    - staging: vt6655: vnt_tx_packet Correct TX order of OWNED_BY_NIC
-    - staging: vt6655: lock MACvWriteBSSIDAddress.
-    - [x86] perf/rapl: Enable Broadwell-U RAPL support
-    - target/pscsi: Don't leak scsi_host if hba is VIRTUAL_HOST
-    - xhci: fix isoc endpoint dequeue from advancing too far on transaction error
+      (regression in 4.0.3)
     - xhci: Solve full event ring by increasing TRBS_PER_SEGMENT to 256
-    - xhci: gracefully handle xhci_irq dead device
-    - USB: visor: Match I330 phone more precisely
-    - USB: pl2303: Remove support for Samsung I330
-    - USB: cp210x: add ID for KCF Technologies PRN device
-    - usb-storage: Add NO_WP_DETECT quirk for Lacie 059f:0651 devices
-    - usb: gadget: configfs: Fix interfaces array NULL-termination
-    - powerpc/mce: fix off by one errors in mce event handling
-    - powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes
-    - mmc: atmel-mci: fix bad variable type for clkdiv
-    - tty/n_gsm.c: fix a memory leak when gsmtty is removed
-    - pty: Fix input race when closing
+    - [powerpc*] mce: fix off by one errors in mce event handling
+      (regression in 3.19)
+    - pty: Fix input race when closing (regression in 3.19)
     - ext4: fix lazytime optimization
     - ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference when journal restart fails
     - ext4: check for zero length extent explicitly
     - jbd2: fix r_count overflows leading to buffer overflow in journal recovery
-    - ahci: avoton port-disable reset-quirk
-    - libata: Add helper to determine when PHY events should be ignored
     - libata: Ignore spurious PHY event on LPM policy change
     - libata: Blacklist queued TRIM on all Samsung 800-series
     - [arm64] bpf: fix signedness bug in loading 64-bit immediate
-    - rt2x00: add new rt2800usb device DWA 130
-    - [armhf] 8325/1: exynos: move resume code to .text section
-    - gpio: gpio-kempld: Fix get_direction return value
-    - crypto: s390/ghash - Fix incorrect ghash icv buffer handling.
+      (regression in 3.18)
+    - [x86] gpio: gpio-kempld: Fix get_direction return value
+    - [s390x] crypto: ghash - Fix incorrect ghash icv buffer handling.
     - mac80211: move WEP tailroom size check
     - mac80211: don't use napi_gro_receive() outside NAPI context
-    - [s390x] mm: correct return value of pmd_pfn
-    - sched: Handle priority boosted tasks proper in setscheduler()
-    - sched: always use blk_schedule_flush_plug in io_schedule_out
-    - [armel,armhf] 8356/1: mm: handle non-pmd-aligned end of RAM
+    - [s390x] mm: correct return value of pmd_pfn (regression in 3.17)
     - [armhf] EXYNOS: Fix dereference of ERR_PTR returned by
-      of_genpd_get_from_provider
-    - [armhf] dts: set display clock correctly for exynos4412-trats2
-    - [armel,armhf] fix missing syscall trace exit
+      of_genpd_get_from_provider (regression in 4.0)
+    - [arm*] fix missing syscall trace exit
     - [hppa] Fix crashes due to stack randomization on stack-grows-upwards
       architectures
-    - gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT
     - kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg
-    - mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines
-    - nfsd/blocklayout: pretend we can send deviceid notifications
     - nfsd: fix the check for confirmed openowner in nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op
-    - svcrpc: fix potential GSSX_ACCEPT_SEC_CONTEXT decoding failures
-    - [x86] firmware: dmi_scan: Fix ordering of product_uuid
-    - [armhf] thermal: armada: Update Armada 380 thermal sensor coefficients
     - md/raid5: don't record new size if resize_stripes fails.
-    - md/raid0: fix restore to sector variable in raid0_make_request
     - Revert "HID: logitech-hidpp: support combo keyboard touchpad TK820"
+      (regression in 3.19)
     - [mips*] fix FP mode selection in lieu of .MIPS.abiflags data
-    - rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock
-    - Input: elantech - fix semi-mt protocol for v3 HW
-    - storvsc: Set the SRB flags correctly when no data transfer is needed
-    - sd: Disable support for 256 byte/sector disks
+      (regression in 4.0)
     - ACPI / init: Fix the ordering of acpi_reserve_resources()
-    - iwlwifi: mvm: clean net-detect info if device was reset during suspend
     - iwlwifi: mvm: Free fw_status after use to avoid memory leak
+      (regression in 3.19)
     - iwlwifi: pcie: prevent using unmapped memory in fw monitor
-    - drm/radeon: add new bonaire pci id
-    - drm/radeon: fix VM_CONTEXT*_PAGE_TABLE_END_ADDR handling
-    - drm/radeon: retry dcpd fetch
     - drm/plane-helper: Adapt cursor hack to transitional helpers
-    - drm/radeon: don't share plls if monitors differ in audio support
+      (regression in 4.0)
     - drm/radeon/audio: make sure connector is valid in hotplug case
     - Revert "drm/radeon: only mark audio as connected if the monitor supports
-      it (v3)"
-    - drm/radeon: partially revert "fix VM_CONTEXT*_PAGE_TABLE_END_ADDR handling"
-    - dm: fix casting bug in dm_merge_bvec()
+      it (v3)" (regression in 4.0.3)
+    - dm: fix casting bug in dm_merge_bvec() (regression in 3.19)
     - dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices
-    - drm/amdkfd: Don't report local memory size
-    - vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path
+      (regression in 4.0)
     - UBI: block: Add missing cache flushes
-    - pwm: img: Impose upper and lower timebase steps value
-    - md: fix race when unfreezing sync_action
+    - md: fix race when unfreezing sync_action (regression in 4.0)
     - fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary(): return -EINVAL on zero-length mappings
+      (regression in 4.0.2)
 
   [ Ben Hutchings ]
   * udeb: Remove i2o modules (fixes FTBFS on amd64) (Closes: #787004)