Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.20 (or 6.0) merge window.

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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 BAIKAL ELECTRONICS, JSC
+ */
+
+#ifndef _POLYNOMIAL_H
+#define _POLYNOMIAL_H
+
+/*
+ * struct polynomial_term - one term descriptor of a polynomial
+ * @deg: degree of the term.
+ * @coef: multiplication factor of the term.
+ * @divider: distributed divider per each degree.
+ * @divider_leftover: divider leftover, which couldn't be redistributed.
+ */
+struct polynomial_term {
+	unsigned int deg;
+	long coef;
+	long divider;
+	long divider_leftover;
+};
+
+/*
+ * struct polynomial - a polynomial descriptor
+ * @total_divider: total data divider.
+ * @terms: polynomial terms, last term must have degree of 0
+ */
+struct polynomial {
+	long total_divider;
+	struct polynomial_term terms[];
+};
+
+long polynomial_calc(const struct polynomial *poly, long data);
+
+#endif