PCI, Crypto & Other Updates Head Into Linux 4.17

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PCI, Crypto & Other Updates Head Into Linux 4.17

We are at the end of the first (and busiest) week of the two-week long Linux 4.17 kernel merge window. There have been many articles on Phoronix about the big highlights of this next kernel version while here are some of the smaller change-sets that came about this week...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.17-Busy-Week

[Azrael5]

Probably it is an important improvement on APM feature.

[FireBurn]

The PCI updates include a fix for Dell / Alienware machines that couldn't hotplug USB-C devices and would see their M.2 drives disappear during suspend

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c?id=13d3047c81505cc0fb9bdae7810676e70523c8bf