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wireless-drivers patches for 4.6

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Major changes:
 
 ath10k
 
 * dt: add bindings for ipq4019 wifi block
 * start adding support for qca4019 chip
 
 ath9k
 
 * add device ID for Toshiba WLM-20U2/GN-1080
 * allow more than one interface on DFS channels
 
 bcma
 
 * move flash detection code to ChipCommon core driver
 
 brcmfmac
 
 * IPv6 Neighbor discovery offload
 * driver settings that can be populated from different sources
 * country code setting in firmware
 * length checks to validate firmware events
 * new way to determine device memory size needed for BCM4366
 * various offloads during Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN)
 * full Management Frame Protection (MFP) support
 
 iwlwifi
 
 * add support for thermal device / cooling device
 * improvements in scheduled scan without profiles
 * new firmware support (-21.ucode)
 * add MSIX support for 9000 devices
 * enable MU-MIMO and take care of firmware restart
 * add support for large SKBs in mvm to reach A-MSDU
 * add support for filtering frames from a BA session
 * start implementing the new Rx path for 9000 devices
 * enable the new Radio Resource Management (RRM) nl80211 feature flag
 * add a new module paramater to disable VHT
 * build infrastructure for Dynamic Queue Allocation
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Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2016-03-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers patches for 4.6

Major changes:

ath10k

* dt: add bindings for ipq4019 wifi block
* start adding support for qca4019 chip

ath9k

* add device ID for Toshiba WLM-20U2/GN-1080
* allow more than one interface on DFS channels

bcma

* move flash detection code to ChipCommon core driver

brcmfmac

* IPv6 Neighbor discovery offload
* driver settings that can be populated from different sources
* country code setting in firmware
* length checks to validate firmware events
* new way to determine device memory size needed for BCM4366
* various offloads during Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN)
* full Management Frame Protection (MFP) support

iwlwifi

* add support for thermal device / cooling device
* improvements in scheduled scan without profiles
* new firmware support (-21.ucode)
* add MSIX support for 9000 devices
* enable MU-MIMO and take care of firmware restart
* add support for large SKBs in mvm to reach A-MSDU
* add support for filtering frames from a BA session
* start implementing the new Rx path for 9000 devices
* enable the new Radio Resource Management (RRM) nl80211 feature flag
* add a new module paramater to disable VHT
* build infrastructure for Dynamic Queue Allocation
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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