Re: [PATCH 1/4] ACPICA: Tables: Change acpi_find_root_pointer() to use acpi_physical_address.

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:28:19PM -0400, George G. Davis wrote:
> From: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
> 
> commit f254e3c57b9d952e987502aefa0804c177dd2503 upstream.
> 
> ACPICA commit 7d9fd64397d7c38899d3dc497525f6e6b044e0e3
> 
> OSPMs like Linux expect an acpi_physical_address returning value from
> acpi_find_root_pointer(). This triggers warnings if sizeof (acpi_size) doesn't
> equal to sizeof (acpi_physical_address):
>   drivers/acpi/osl.c:275:3: warning: passing argument 1 of 'acpi_find_root_pointer' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
>   In file included from include/acpi/acpi.h:64:0,
>                    from include/linux/acpi.h:36,
>                    from drivers/acpi/osl.c:41:
>   include/acpi/acpixf.h:433:1: note: expected 'acpi_size *' but argument is of type 'acpi_physical_address *'
> This patch corrects acpi_find_root_pointer().
> 
> Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/7d9fd643
> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <george_davis@mentor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/acpica/tbxfroot.c | 7 ++++---
>  include/acpi/acpixf.h          | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Why shouldn't this patch also be in 4.0-stable?  I don't want to take
patches in one tree and not others.

Same for the other patches in this series.

thanks,

greg k-h