Patch "ACPICA: Events: Add runtime stub support for event APIs" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ACPICA: Events: Add runtime stub support for event APIs

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
acpica-events-add-runtime-stub-support-for-event-apis.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Lv Zheng <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 16:40:02 +0800
Subject: ACPICA: Events: Add runtime stub support for event APIs

From: Lv Zheng <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 861ba6351c520328e94a78c923b415faa9116287 ]

ACPICA commit 99bc3beca92c6574ea1d69de42e54f872e6373ce

It is reported that on Linux, RTC driver complains wrong errors on hardware reduced platform:

  [    4.085420] ACPI Warning: Could not enable fixed event - real_time_clock (4) (20160422/evxface-654)

This patch fixes this by correctly adding runtime reduced hardware check. Reported by Chandan Tagore, fixed by Lv Zheng.

---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/evxfevnt.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

@@ -180,6 +180,12 @@ acpi_status acpi_enable_event(u32 event,
 
 	ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(acpi_enable_event);
 
+	/* If Hardware Reduced flag is set, there are no fixed events */
+
+	if (acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware) {
+		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
+	}
+
 	/* Decode the Fixed Event */
 
 	if (event > ACPI_EVENT_MAX) {

@@ -237,6 +243,12 @@ acpi_status acpi_disable_event(u32 event
 
 	ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(acpi_disable_event);
 
+	/* If Hardware Reduced flag is set, there are no fixed events */
+
+	if (acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware) {
+		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
+	}
+
 	/* Decode the Fixed Event */
 
 	if (event > ACPI_EVENT_MAX) {

@@ -290,6 +302,12 @@ acpi_status acpi_clear_event(u32 event)
 
 	ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(acpi_clear_event);
 
+	/* If Hardware Reduced flag is set, there are no fixed events */
+
+	if (acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware) {
+		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
+	}
+
 	/* Decode the Fixed Event */
 
 	if (event > ACPI_EVENT_MAX) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/acpica-disassembler-abort-on-an-invalid-unknown-aml-opcode.patch queue-4.4/acpica-events-add-runtime-stub-support-for-event-apis.patch