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From: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:09:27 -0800
Subject: ACPICA: Update error message, no functional change
Patch-mainline: v4.17-rc1
Git-commit: d82847acd400fca0404517d19fd5c0740e6e42db
References: bsc#1117419

ACPICA commit 0787fda3b224a78369e26ac6046658beb2b64c12

Clarify error when an attempt is made to evaluate things like
devices, events, etc. -- these objects have no data and cannot
be "evaluated".

Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/0787fda3
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_ns_evaluate(struct acpi
 	 * 3) The object is not a method -- just return it's current value
 	 */
 	switch (acpi_ns_get_type(info->node)) {
+	case ACPI_TYPE_ANY:
 	case ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE:
 	case ACPI_TYPE_EVENT:
 	case ACPI_TYPE_MUTEX:
@@ -194,11 +195,12 @@ acpi_status acpi_ns_evaluate(struct acpi
 	case ACPI_TYPE_THERMAL:
 	case ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_SCOPE:
 		/*
-		 * 1) Disallow evaluation of certain object types. For these,
-		 *    object evaluation is undefined and not supported.
+		 * 1) Disallow evaluation of these object types. For these,
+		 *    object evaluation is undefined.
 		 */
 		ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO,
-			    "%s: Evaluation of object type [%s] is not supported",
+			    "%s: This object type [%s] "
+			    "never contains data and cannot be evaluated",
 			    info->full_pathname,
 			    acpi_ut_get_type_name(info->node->type)));