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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:20:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 24/35] ACPICA: iASL: Fix for WPBT table with
 no command-line arguments
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
        Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
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On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 4:38 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 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.