diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h
index 2b3c5bd222f17be2069b3f58e0818637c4f46f40..d49f5c7a20d90197ece8b625dd2fcd22fca4c4b1 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ extern const u8 _acpi_ctype[];
 #define _ACPI_DI     0x04	/* '0'-'9' */
 #define _ACPI_LO     0x02	/* 'a'-'z' */
 #define _ACPI_PU     0x10	/* punctuation */
-#define _ACPI_SP     0x08	/* space */
+#define _ACPI_SP     0x08	/* space, tab, CR, LF, VT, FF */
 #define _ACPI_UP     0x01	/* 'A'-'Z' */
 #define _ACPI_XD     0x80	/* '0'-'9', 'A'-'F', 'a'-'f' */
 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utfileio.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utfileio.c
index 7e1168be39fa6d192a8fc18c49df9557d4c6f713..f72c53c05d649c1b50aa304b03981649ce7f06ae 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utfileio.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utfileio.c
@@ -198,11 +198,8 @@ acpi_ut_read_table(FILE * fp,
 			     table_header.length, file_size);
 
 #ifdef ACPI_ASL_COMPILER
-			status = fl_check_for_ascii(fp, NULL, FALSE);
-			if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) {
-				acpi_os_printf
-				    ("File appears to be ASCII only, must be binary\n");
-			}
+			acpi_os_printf("File is corrupt or is ASCII text -- "
+				       "it must be a binary file\n");
 #endif
 			return (AE_BAD_HEADER);
 		}