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ACPI updates for v4.11-rc1

 - Update of the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
   20170119 including:
   * Fixes related to the handling of the bit width and bit offset
     fields in Generic Address Structure (Lv Zheng).
   * ACPI resources handling fix related to invalid resource
     descriptors (Bob Moore).
   * Fix to enable implicit result conversion for several ASL
     library functions (Bob Moore).
   * Support for method invocations as target operands in AML
     (Bob Moore).
   * Fix to use a correct operand type for DeRefOf() in some
     situations (Bob Moore).
   * Utilities updates (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng).
   * Disassembler/debugger updates (David Box, Lv Zheng).
   * Build fixes (Colin Ian King, Lv Zheng).
   * Update of copyright notices in all files (Bob Moore).

 - Fix for modalias handling for SPI and I2C devices with
   DT-compatible identification strings (Dan O'Donovan).

 - Fixes for the ACPI EC and button drivers (Lv Zheng).

 - ACPI processor handling fix related to CPU hotplug (online/offline)
   on x86 (Vitaly Kuznetsov).

 - Suspend quirk to save/restore NVS memory over S3 transitions for
   Lenovo G50-45 (Zhang Rui).

 - Message formatting fix for the ACPI APEI code (Colin Ian King).