v1.8.2-nscale

This release brings us up-to-date with the upstream master and merges in the automation changes to facilitate future maintenance

v1.8.1-nscale: fix formatting and use the right procfs

This is built from the upstream master branch

we only add a dependency on the forked procfs so we can monitor all the metrics in the InfiniBand hw_counter dir exported by the Broadcom bnxt_re NIC