ACPICA Release 20100528 linuxized patches

Hi, Len

ACPICA Release 20100528 linuxized patches attached. Applied cleanly on top of linus tree(67a3e12).

[PATCH 01/14] ACPICA: Add comment: _BCL cannot be sorted on the fly [PATCH 02/14] ACPICA: Fix namestring associated with AE_NO_HANDLER exception [PATCH 03/14] ACPICA: iASL/Core: Add support for _WDG/_WED MS methods [PATCH 04/14] ACPICA: Expand initialization counters to 32 bits [PATCH 05/14] ACPICA: Limit maximum time for Sleep() operator
[PATCH 06/14] ACPICA: Core: Replace all %d format specifiers with %u (unsigned) [PATCH 07/14] ACPICA: Expand device initialization counters to 32 bits [PATCH 08/14] ACPICA: Truncate I/O addresses to 16 bits for Windows compatibility [PATCH 09/14] ACPICA: Performance enhancement for namespace search and access [PATCH 10/14] ACPICA: Update flags for operand object
[PATCH 11/14] ACPICA: Enable multi-byte EC transfers
[PATCH 12/14] ACPICA: Optimization: Reduce the number of namespace walks [PATCH 13/14] ACPICA: Add signatures for undefined tables: ATKG, GSCI, IEIT [PATCH 14/14] ACPICA: Update version to 20100528

Lin Ming

Hi, Len

It's reported that patch 11 has a bug, see
http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=863

Please apply this new version of mbox, the only difference is as below.

Alexey,

The reporter confirmed that removing the "Handle the simple case here" code fixes bug 863.

drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c +0 -8

index 38293fd..00a444f 100644
@@ -698,15 +698,7 @@ acpi_ex_extract_from_field(union acpi_operand_object *obj_desc,
 	ACPI_MEMSET(buffer, 0, buffer_length);
 	access_bit_width = ACPI_MUL_8(obj_desc->common_field.access_byte_width);
 
-	/* Handle the simple case here */
-
-	if ((obj_desc->common_field.start_field_bit_offset == 0) &&
-	    (obj_desc->common_field.bit_length == access_bit_width)) {
-		status = acpi_ex_field_datum_io(obj_desc, 0, buffer, ACPI_READ);
-		return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
-	}
-
 /* TBD: Move to common setup code */
 
 	/* Field algorithm is limited to sizeof(u64), truncate if needed */
 

Quoted 20 lines · Lin Ming

Hi, Len

ACPICA Release 20100528 linuxized patches attached. Applied cleanly on top of linus tree(67a3e12).

[PATCH 01/14] ACPICA: Add comment: _BCL cannot be sorted on the fly [PATCH 02/14] ACPICA: Fix namestring associated with AE_NO_HANDLER exception [PATCH 03/14] ACPICA: iASL/Core: Add support for _WDG/_WED MS methods [PATCH 04/14] ACPICA: Expand initialization counters to 32 bits [PATCH 05/14] ACPICA: Limit maximum time for Sleep() operator
[PATCH 06/14] ACPICA: Core: Replace all %d format specifiers with %u (unsigned) [PATCH 07/14] ACPICA: Expand device initialization counters to 32 bits [PATCH 08/14] ACPICA: Truncate I/O addresses to 16 bits for Windows compatibility [PATCH 09/14] ACPICA: Performance enhancement for namespace search and access [PATCH 10/14] ACPICA: Update flags for operand object
[PATCH 11/14] ACPICA: Enable multi-byte EC transfers
[PATCH 12/14] ACPICA: Optimization: Reduce the number of namespace walks [PATCH 13/14] ACPICA: Add signatures for undefined tables: ATKG, GSCI, IEIT [PATCH 14/14] ACPICA: Update version to 20100528

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Lin Ming