ACPI material for v4.7-rc1
- In-kernel ACPICA code update to the upstream release 20160422
adding support for ACPI 6.1 along with some previously missing
bits of ACPI 6.0 support, making a fair amount of fixes and
cleanups and reducing divergences between the upstream ACPICA
and the in-kernel code (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, Al Stone, Aleksey
Makarov, Will Miles).
- ACPI Generic Event Device (GED) support and a fix for it (Sinan Kaya,
Paul Gortmaker).
- INT3406 thermal driver for display thermal management and ACPI
backlight support code reorganization related to it (Aaron Lu,
Arnd Bergmann).
- Support for exporting the value returned by the _HRV (hardware
revision) ACPI object via sysfs (Betty Dall).
- Removal of the EXPERT dependency for ACPI on ARM64 (Mark Brown).
- Rework of the handling of ACPI _OSI mechanism allowing the
_OSI("Darwin") support to be overridden from the kernel command
line among other things (Lv Zheng, Chen Yu).
- Rework of the ACPI tables override mechanism to prepare it for
the introduction of overlays support going forward (Lv Zheng,
Rafael Wysocki).
- Fixes related to the ECDT support and module-level execution
of AML (Lv Zheng).
- ACPI PCI interrupts management update to make it work better on
ARM64 mostly (Sinan Kaya).
- ACPI SRAT handling update to make the code process all entires
in the table order regardless of the entry type (Lukasz Anaczkowski).
- EFI power off support for full-hardware ACPI platforms that don't
support ACPI S5 (Chen Yu).
- Fixes and cleanups related to the ACPI core's sysfs interface
(Dan Carpenter, Betty Dall).
- acpi_dev_present() API rework to reduce possible confusion related
to it (Lukas Wunner).
- Removal of CLK_IS_ROOT from two ACPI drivers (Stephen Boyd).
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