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ACPICA updates for v4.1-rc1

 - Fix for a GPE handling regression on Dell Latitude D600 that
   caused GPE signaling to stop working on that machine, which
   appears to be due to a hardware glitch, but it used to work
   and it can be made work again in a relativly straightforward
   way (Rafael J Wysocki).

 - Fix for a mutex unlock regression related to the handling of ACPI
   tables introduced during the 3.16 development cycle (Octavian Purdila).

 - _REV modification to always return 2 which has been done by all
   versions of Windows since NT and the firmware people started to
   use it to distinguish between OSes in their AML and do some silly
   and wrong things on that basis (Bob Moore).

 - Fixes and cleanups related to the acpi_physicall_address data type
   including one stable-candidate fix for an issue occasionally occuring
   on 64-bit machines running 32-bit kernels where using offsets provided
   by the firmware may lead to address overflows (Lv Zheng).

 - External() opcode support infrastructure needed for recompiling
   disassembled ACPI tables in some cases including interpreter
   modification to ignore that opcode (Bob Moore).

 - Support for the "Windows 2015" string in _OSI (Bob Moore).

 - GPE debug interface change to return values read from hardware
   registers (Lv Zheng).

 - Removal of the __DATE__ macro usage in tools (Rasmus Villemoes).

 - Assorted minor fixes and cleanups (Lv Zheng, Rickard Strandqvist,
   Bob Moore).

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