Merge branch 'acpica'

* acpica: (33 commits)
  ACPICA: Update version to 20130328
  ACPICA: Add a lock to the internal object reference count mechanism
  ACPICA: Fix a format string for 64-bit generation
  ACPICA: Remove FORCE_DELETE option for global reference count mechanism
  ACPICA: Improve error message for Index() operator
  ACPICA: FADT: Remove extraneous warning for very large GPE registers
  ACPICA: Fix a typo in a function header, no functional change
  ACPICA: Fix a typo in an error message
  ACPICA: Fix for some comments/headers
  ACPICA: _OSI Support: handle any errors from acpi_os_acquire_mutex()
  ACPICA: Predefine names: Add allowed argument types to master info table
  ACPI: Set length even for TYPE_END_TAG acpi resource
  ACPICA: Update version to 20130214
  ACPICA: Object repair: Allow 0-length packages for variable-length packages
  ACPICA: Disassembler: Add warnings for unresolved control methods
  ACPICA: Return object repair: Add resource template repairs
  ACPICA: Return object repair: Add string-to-unicode conversion
  ACPICA: Split object conversion functions to a new file
  ACPICA: Add mechanism for early object repairs on a per-name basis
  ACPICA: Remove trailing comma in enum declarations
  ...

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c
index 1538f3eb2a8f..b61db69d5675 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c
@@ -98,17 +98,21 @@ acpi_status acpi_ns_evaluate(struct acpi_evaluate_info * info)
 	info->return_object = NULL;
 	info->param_count = 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * Get the actual namespace node for the target object. Handles these cases:
-	 *
-	 * 1) Null node, Pathname (absolute path)
-	 * 2) Node, Pathname (path relative to Node)
-	 * 3) Node, Null Pathname
-	 */
-	status = acpi_ns_get_node(info->prefix_node, info->pathname,
-				  ACPI_NS_NO_UPSEARCH, &info->resolved_node);
-	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
-		return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+	if (!info->resolved_node) {
+		/*
+		 * Get the actual namespace node for the target object if we need to.
+		 * Handles these cases:
+		 *
+		 * 1) Null node, Pathname (absolute path)
+		 * 2) Node, Pathname (path relative to Node)
+		 * 3) Node, Null Pathname
+		 */
+		status = acpi_ns_get_node(info->prefix_node, info->pathname,
+					  ACPI_NS_NO_UPSEARCH,
+					  &info->resolved_node);
+		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+			return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*