Linux kernel v4.13 was released and - like in the v4.12 release - 12 Collabora developers contributed a total of 72 patches. In addition Collabora developers provided 25 Reviewed-by tags and 10 Tested-by tags. Furthermore 83 patches received a Signed-off-by tag from Collabora peoples. Again, general information about the merge window is available by LWN.net in form of the following articles: part 1 and part 2.
Now here is a look at the specific changes made by Collaborans.
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The last few days I worked on the MCP23017 kernel driver and wondered about a good method to test my changes in a comfortable way. Fortunately I built myself an i2c-tiny-usb adapter some time ago, which is supported by mainline Linux. Thus any system with USB host support could be used for testing the above chip. My minimal test-setup can be seen in the image below. Basically I supplied 5V, Ground, SCL & SDA from the adapter to MCP23017, connected the low-active reset pin to 5V and the address-selection pins to Ground.
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