Logfile: Changes for version 20170119

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+19 January 2017. Summary of changes for version 20170119:
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+This release is available at https://acpica.org/downloads
+
+1) General ACPICA software:
+
+Entire source code base: Added the 2017 copyright to all source code 
+legal/licensing module headers and utility/tool signons. This includes 
+the standard Linux dual-license header. This affects virtually every file 
+in the ACPICA core subsystem, iASL compiler, all ACPICA utilities, and 
+the ACPICA test suite.
+
+
+2) iASL Compiler/Disassembler and Tools:
+
+iASL: Removed/fixed an inadvertent remark when a method argument 
+containing a reference is used as a target operand within the method (and 
+never used as a simple argument), as in the example below. Jeffrey Hugo.
+
+    dsdt.asl   1507:    Store(0x1, Arg0)
+    Remark   2146 -                ^ Method Argument is never used (Arg0)
+
+All tools: Removed the bit width of the compiler that generated the tool 
+from the common signon for all user space tools. This proved to be 
+confusing and unnecessary. This includes similar removal of HARDWARE_NAME 
+from the generic makefiles (Thomas Petazzoni). Example below.
+
+    Old:
+    ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20170119-32
+    ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20170119-64
+
+    New:
+    ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20170119
+
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 22 December 2016. Summary of changes for version 20161222: