[ANNOUNCE] ndctl v68

[ANNOUNCE] ndctl v68

[Verma, Vishal L]

This release incorporates functionality up to the 5.6 kernel.

Highlights for this release include new commands to read-infoblock and
write-infoblock, improvements and tests related to alignment
constraints, misc build/compilation related fixes, and misc usability
and documentation fixes.

The shortlog for this release is appended below:

Auke Kok (3):
      ndctl/build: Do not use `check-news` when `NEWS` file is absent entirely.
      ndctl/build: Ensure header and other misc files are listed.
      ndctl/build: Add `header` as a prereq to Make rule where it is consumed.

Dan Williams (39):
      ndctl/namespace: Clarify that 'reconfigure' == 'destroy+create'
      ndctl/namespace: Fixup man page indentation
      ndctl/list: Add 'target_node' to region and namespace verbose listings
      ndctl/docs: Fix mailing list sign-up link
      ndctl/list: Drop named list objects from verbose listing
      daxctl/list: Avoid memory operations without resource data
      ndctl/build: Fix distcheck
      ndctl/namespace: Fix destroy-namespace accounting relative to seed devices
      ndctl/region: Support ndctl_region_{get, set}_align()
      ndctl/namespace: Emit better errors on failure
      ndctl/namespace: Check for region alignment violations
      ndctl/util: Up-level is_power_of_2() and introduce IS_ALIGNED
      ndctl/namespace: Validate resource alignment for dax-mode namespaces
      ndctl/namespace: Add read-infoblock command
      ndctl/test: Update dax-dev to handle multiple e820 ranges
      ndctl/namespace: Always zero info-blocks
      ndctl/namespace: Disable autorecovery of create-namespace failures
      ndctl/build: Fix EXTRA_DIST already defined errors
      ndctl/test: Checkout device-mapper + dax operation
      ndctl/test: Exercise sub-section sized namespace creation/deletion
      ndctl/namespace: Kill off the legacy mode names
      ndctl/namespace: Introduce mode-to-name and name-to-mode helpers
      ndctl/namespace: Validate namespace size within validate_namespace_options()
      ndctl/namespace: Clarify 16M minimum size requirement
      ndctl/test: Regression test 'failed to track'
      ndctl/dimm: Rework dimm command status reporting
      ndctl/dimm: Rework iteration to drop unaligned pointers
      ndctl/test: Fix typos / loss of tpm.handle in security test
      ndctl/test: Cleanup test-vs-production nvdimm module detection
      ndctl/test: Relax dax_pmem_compat requirement
      ndctl/namespace: Fix namespace-action vs namespace-mode confusion
      ndctl/namespace: Update 'pfn' infoblock definition
      ndctl/util: Return 0 for NULL arguments to parse_size64()
      ndctl/namespace: Fix read-info-block vs read-infoblock
      ndctl/namespace: Parse infoblocks from stdin
      ndctl/namespace: Add write-infoblock command
      ndctl/list: Add option to list configured + disabled namespaces
      ndctl/lib/namespace: Fix resource retrieval after size change
      ndctl/test: Regression test misaligned namespaces

Ira Weiny (1):
      ndctl: Clean up loop logic in query_fw_finish_status

Santosh Sivaraj (2):
      ndctl/namespace: Fix enable-namespace error for seed namespaces
      ndctl/zero-labels: Display error if regions are active

Vaibhav Jain (1):
      namespace/create: Don't create multiple namespaces unless greedy

Vishal Verma (7):
      ndctl/namespace: remove open coded is_namespace_active()
      ndctl/namespace: introduce ndctl_namespace_is_configuration_idle()
      ndctl/README: Update kernel documentation URL
      ndctl/lib: fix symbol redefinitions reported by GCC10
      ndctl: add util/filter.{c,h} to ndctl_SOURCES in Makefile.am
      ndctl/namespace: Fix a resource leak in file_write_infoblock
      ndctl: release v68

Yi Zhang (1):
      ndctl/test: add bus-id parameter for start-scrub/wait-scrub operation

redhairer (2):
      ndctl/test: add UUID_LIBS for blk_namespaces/pmem_namespaces/device_dax
      daxctl: Change region input type from INTEGER to STRING.
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