This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: 8250_dw: Drop wrong use of ACPI_PTR() to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: serial-8250_dw-drop-wrong-use-of-acpi_ptr.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 355bb9f8a9ee66fd58f1286dc2355e9321953494 Author: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 5 16:45:16 2021 +0300 serial: 8250_dw: Drop wrong use of ACPI_PTR() [ Upstream commit ebabb77a2a115b6c5e68f7364b598310b5f61fb2 ] ACPI_PTR() is more harmful than helpful. For example, in this case if CONFIG_ACPI=n, the ID table left unused which is not what we want. Instead of adding ifdeffery here and there, drop ACPI_PTR(). Fixes: 6a7320c4669f ("serial: 8250_dw: Add ACPI 5.0 support") Reported-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211005134516.23218-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c index a3a0154da567d..49559731bbcf1 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ static struct platform_driver dw8250_platform_driver = { .name = "dw-apb-uart", .pm = &dw8250_pm_ops, .of_match_table = dw8250_of_match, - .acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(dw8250_acpi_match), + .acpi_match_table = dw8250_acpi_match, }, .probe = dw8250_probe, .remove = dw8250_remove,