ACPI updates for 4.17-rc1
- Update the in-kernel ACPICA code to upstream revision 20180313
including:
* Module-level AML code handling fixes and simplifications (Bob
Moore, Erik Schmauss).
* Fixes and cleanups related to messaging (Bob Moore).
* Events handling fixes related to disabling and enabling GPEs
(Erik Schmauss).
* Introduction of SPDX license identifiers and removal of license
boilerplate in multiple files (Erik Schmauss).
* Assorted fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore, Erik Schmauss, Hans
de Goede, Seunghun Han).
- Add new basic driver for the ACPI Time and Alarm Device (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Modify the ACPI battery driver to support battery thresholds on
Lenovo ThinkPads (Ognjen Galic, Colin Ian King).
- Avoid reporting battery capacity over 100 in the ACPI battery
driver in some cases (Laszlo Toth).
- Make the kernel recognize an OEM _OSI string from Dell to avoid
power management issues with NVidia GPUs in Dell platforms (Alex
Hung).
- Make the PCI IRQ management code handle missing _PRS cleanly (Alex
Hung).
- Fix uevent notifications related to device hotplut (Lee, Chun-Yi).
- Prevent the ACPI PAD driver from leaking memory (Lenny Szubowicz).
- Update the ACPI CPPC library code to include subspace IDs in the
kernel messages logged by it (George Cherian).
- Add backlight quirk for Samsung 670Z5E (Hans de Goede).
- Add the NFIT and HMAT tables to the list of ACPI tables that can
be overridden via initrd (Dan Williams).
- Fix and clean up some ACPI documentation and Kconfig help language
(Aishwarya Pant, Randy Dunlap).
- Replace license boilerplate with an SPDX license ID in the ACPI
PMIC operation region handling code (Rajmohan Mani).