Merge most of the changes that recently made it to master.
This will be the last such merge operation and future commits will only cherry-pick fixes and targeted features.
Major fixes and features,
- reboot cause enhancement with more hardware reboot cause reporting
- fix reboot cause parsing issue with 201811 release
- fix get_change_event logic
- fix error message on missing sysfs entry by our plugins
- final piece of the platform refactors for fan and sensor reporting through the platform API
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