ndctl v63

https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/releases/tag/v63

This release incorporates functionality up to the 4.20 kernel, and a
number of bug fixes and improvements.

Highlights include switching the documentation build to asciidoctor by
default, fixes to destroy-namespace for reporting the number of
namespaces acted upon, using the namespace badblocks listings exported
by the kernel, and making them available to non-root users, a new helper
for retrieving the dirty-shutdown-count, reverting the udev rule to set
the shutdown count latch and cache the dirty-shutdown-count, and fixing
the ndctl-monitor daemon to exit successfully in the absence of NVDIMMs.

Shortlog:
Dan Williams (7):
      ndctl, build: Introduce --with-{bash,systemd}
      ndctl, spec: Use pkgconfig for systemd
      ndctl, lib: refactor badblocks retrieval routines
      ndctl, lib: add APIs for retrieving namespace badblocks
      ndctl, lib: Add dirty-shutdown-count retrieval helper
      ndctl: Revert "ndctl, intel: Fallback to smart cached shutdown_count"
      ndctl: Revert "ndctl: Create ndctl udev rules for dirty shutdown"

Keith Busch (1):
      ndctl: Suppress command errors if fallback exists

QI Fuli (1):
      ndctl, monitor: fix the severity of "daemon started" message

Robert Elliott (1):
      ndctl, check-labels: correct check-labels message wording

Vishal Verma (14):
      ndctl, autoconf: include sys/mman.h for MAP_SYNC
      ndctl, monitor: Fix formatting for --log in the man page
      ndctl, list: fix the verbosity level formatting in the man page
      ndctl, docs: Use asciidoctor by default
      ndctl, test: add UUID_LIBS for list_smart_dimm
      ndctl, destroy-namespace: check for an already-zeroed info block
      ndctl, namespace: rework namespace action accounting
      ndctl, test: add a new unit test pfn metadata error clearing
      util/json: fix an error check for region resource
      util/json: Add comments around re-checking the UTIL_JSON_MEDIA_ERRORS flag
      util/json: add a util_namespace_badblocks_to_json() helper
      libndctl: set errno for routines that don't return an error status
      ndctl, monitor: in daemon mode, exit successfully if no DIMMs are found
      ndctl: release v63
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