Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 24/35] ACPICA: iASL: Fix for WPBT table with no command-line arguments

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 08:20:58 EST


On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 4:38 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:45:36AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >> Handle the case where the Command-line Arguments table field
> >> does not exist.
> >>
> >> ACPICA commit d6487164497fda170a1b1453c5d58f2be7c873d6
> >
> >I'm not sure what is going on here, but adding unused definition will
> >not make any difference for 4.4 users, so we don't need this in
> >-stable...?
>
> Ugh, dropped, thanks!
>
> I wonder what this patch actually does upstream.

There are AML compiler changes in it, but the compiler is not included
into the Linux kernel.