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PCI / ACPI fix for v4.1-rc6

This fixes a bug uncovered by a recent driver core change that
modified the implementation of the ACPI_COMPANION_SET() macro to
strictly rely on its second argument to be either NULL or a valid
pointer to struct acpi_device.

As it turns out, pcibios_root_bridge_prepare() on x86 and ia64
works with the assumption that the only code path calling
pci_create_root_bus() is pci_acpi_scan_root() and therefore
the sysdata argument passed to it will always match the
expectations of pcibios_root_bridge_prepare().  That need not
be the case, however, and in particular it is not the case for
the Xen pcifront driver that passes a pointer to its own private
data strcture as sysdata to pci_scan_bus_parented() which then
passes it to pci_create_root_bus() and it ends up being used
incorrectly by pcibios_root_bridge_prepare().

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