Merge branch 'for-bfields' of git://linux-nfs.org/~tomtucker/xprt-switch-2.6 into for-2.6.27

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsfield.c b/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsfield.c
index c78078315be9..f988a5e7d2b4 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsfield.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsfield.c
@@ -450,10 +450,6 @@ acpi_ds_init_field_objects(union acpi_parse_object *op,
                 return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_BAD_PARAMETER);
         }
 
-        if (!arg) {
-                return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_AML_NO_OPERAND);
-        }
-
         /* Creating new namespace node(s), should not already exist */
 
         flags = ACPI_NS_NO_UPSEARCH | ACPI_NS_DONT_OPEN_SCOPE |
@@ -467,6 +463,7 @@ acpi_ds_init_field_objects(union acpi_parse_object *op,
 
         /*
          * Walk the list of entries in the field_list
+         * Note: field_list can be of zero length. In this case, Arg will be NULL.
          */
         while (arg) {
                 /*
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c b/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c
index e48a3ea03117..2509809a36cf 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmethod.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ acpi_ds_terminate_control_method(union acpi_operand_object *method_desc,
 
                                 acpi_os_release_mutex(method_desc->method.
                                                       mutex->mutex.os_mutex);
-                                method_desc->method.mutex->mutex.thread_id = 0;
+                                method_desc->method.mutex->mutex.thread_id = NULL;
                         }
                 }