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sound updates for 4.6-rc1

After a heavy storm by syzkaller in 4.5 cycle, we have relatively few
changes in the core at this time while a lot of changes are found in
the driver side, unsurprisingly.  Below are some highlights:

ALSA core:
- A few more hardening in ALSA timer codes
- An extension of sequencer API for advertising the card / pid
- Small fixes in compress-offload and jack layers

HD-audio:
- Dynamic PCM assignment in HDMI/DP codec; preparation for upcoming
  DP-MST support
- Lots of code refactoring for sharing with ASoC SKL driver
- Regression fixes for Intel HDMI/DP
- Fixups for CX20724 codec, Lenovo AiO

USB-audio:
- Add quirk_alias option to make quirk debugging easier
- Fixes for possible Oops by malformed firmware

Firewire:
- Add support for FW-1804 in tascam driver
- Improvements / changes in card registration, multi stream handling,
  etc for DICE
- Lots of code refactoring

ASoC:
- Enhancements of still ongoing topology API
- Lots of commits for Intel Skylake support including HDMI support
- A few Intel Atom driver updates for recent devices
- Lots of improvements to the Renesas drivers
- Capture support for Qualcomm drivers
- Support for TI DaVinci DRA7xxx devices
- New machine drivers for Freescale systems with Cirrus CODECs,
  Mediatek systems with RT5650 CODECs
- New CPU drivers for Allwinner S/PDIF controllers
- New CODEC drivers for Maxim MAX9867 and MAX98926 and Realtek RT5514