ndctl v66

This release incorporates functionality up to the 5.3 kernel, and adds a
number of bug fixes, and improvements.

Highlights include a new command to reconfigure dax devices to
different modes (devdax - default, and system-ram - to hotplug the dax
device as system memory), improvements to ndctl-{read,write,init}-labels
allowing smaller sized reads/writes, usability fixes to ndctl-monitor,
and ndctl-create-namespace, and a fix to ndctl-check-namespace allowing
it to be used on systems with different page sizes.

Shortlog for this release:

Alison Schofield (2):
      ndctl, test: handle backup_keys in security.sh
      ndctl, test: move security.sh to the destructive test list

Dan Williams (14):
      ndctl/dimm: Add 'flags' field to read-labels output
      ndctl/dimm: Add --human support to read-labels
      ndctl/build: Drop -Wpointer-arith
      ndctl/namespace: Handle 'create-namespace' in label-less mode
      ndctl/dimm: Fix init-labels success reporting
      ndctl/test: Fix device-dax bus-model detection
      ndctl/monitor: Allow monitor to be manually moved to the background
      ndctl/dimm: Support small label reads/writes
      ndctl/dimm: Minimize data-transfer for init-labels
      ndctl/dimm: Add offset and size options to {read, write, zero}-labels
      ndctl/dimm: Limit read-labels with --index option
      ndctl/namespace: Minimize label data transfer for autolabel
      ndctl/namespace: Continue region search on 'missing seed' event
      ndctl/namespace: Report ENOSPC when regions are full

Vaibhav Jain (1):
      ndctl, check: Ensure mmap of BTT sections work with 64K page-sizes

Vishal Verma (17):
      libndctl/inject: Refuse error injection for BTT namespaces
      Documentation/ndctl: fix a typo in ndctl(1)
      ndctl/monitor: make the daemon exit message 'info' level
      libdaxctl: add interfaces to get ctx and check device state
      libdaxctl: add interfaces to enable/disable devices
      libdaxctl: add an interface to retrieve the device resource
      libdaxctl: add a 'daxctl_memory' object for memory based operations
      daxctl/list: add target_node for device listings
      daxctl/list: display the mode for a dax device
      daxctl: add a new reconfigure-device command
      Documentation/daxctl: add a man page for daxctl-reconfigure-device
      daxctl: add commands to online and offline memory
      Documentation: Add man pages for daxctl-{on,off}line-memory
      contrib/ndctl: fix region-id completions for daxctl
      contrib/ndctl: add bash-completion for the new daxctl commands
      test: Add a unit test for daxctl-reconfigure-device and friends
      ndctl: release v66
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