ACK: [PATCH] ACPICA: Update to version 20170303

[Alex Hung]

On 2017-03-04 02:03 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> This pulls in the following ACPICA changes since the previous
> release:
>
> 0) ACPICA licensing:
>
> The licensing information at the start of each source code module has
> been updated. In addition to the Intel license, the dual GPLv2/BSD
> license has been added for completeness. Now, a single version of the
> ource code should be suitable for all ACPICA customers. This is the
> major change for this release since it affects all source code modules.
>
> 1) ACPICA kernel-resident subsystem:
>
> Fixed two issues with the common asltypes.h header that could cause
> problems in some environments: (Kim Jung-uk)
>     Removed typedef for YY_BUFFER_STATE ?
>        Fixes an error with earlier versions of Flex.
>     Removed use of FILE typedef (which is only defined in stdio.h)
>
> 2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
>
> Disassembler: fixed a regression introduced in 20170224. A fix for a
> memory leak related to resource descriptor tags (names) could fault when
> the disassembler was generated with 64-bit compilers.
>
> The ASLTS test suite has been updated to implement a new testing
> architecture. During generation of the suite from ASL source, both the
> ASL and ASL+ compilers are now validated, as well as the disassembler
> itself (Erik Schmauss). The architecture executes as follows:
>
>     For every ASL source module:
>         Compile (legacy ASL compilation)
>         Disassemble the resulting AML to ASL+ source code
>         Compile the new ASL+ module
>         Perform a binary compare on the legacy AML and the new ASL+ AML
>     The ASLTS suite then executes normally using the AML binaries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---


Acked-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>