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ACPI updates for 5.8-rc1

 - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
   20200430:

   * Move acpi_gbl_next_cmd_num definition (Erik Kaneda).

   * Ignore AE_ALREADY_EXISTS status in the disassembler when parsing
     create operators (Erik Kaneda).

   * Add status checks to the dispatcher (Erik Kaneda).

   * Fix required parameters for _NIG and _NIH (Erik Kaneda).

   * Make acpi_protocol_lengths static (Yue Haibing).

 - Fix ACPI table reference counting errors in several places, mostly
   in error code paths (Hanjun Guo).

 - Extend the Generic Event Device (GED) driver to support _Exx and
   _Lxx handler methods (Ard Biesheuvel).

 - Add new acpi_evaluate_reg() helper and modify the ACPI PCI hotplug
   code to use it (Hans de Goede).

 - Add new DPTF battery participant driver and make the DPFT power
   participant driver create more sysfs device attributes (Srinivas
   Pandruvada).

 - Improve the handling of memory failures in APEI (James Morse).

 - Add new blacklist entry for Acer TravelMate 5735Z to the backlight
   driver (Paul Menzel).

 - Add i2c address for thermal control to the PMIC driver (Mauro
   Carvalho Chehab).

 - Allow the ACPI processor idle driver to work on platforms with
   only one ACPI C-state present (Zhang Rui).

 - Fix kobject reference count leaks in error code paths in two
   places (Qiushi Wu).

 - Delete unused proc filename macros and make some symbols static
   (Pascal Terjan, Zheng Zengkai, Zou Wei).