From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> _BIF was returning buffer instead of a string since day 1 of ACPI. Adding a warning for that is noble, but people don't like when someone cries wolf in a production system. Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14379 Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h index cd80d1d..57bdaf6 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h @@ -203,8 +203,9 @@ static const union acpi_predefined_info predefined_names[] = {{"_BCT", 1, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER}}, {{"_BDN", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER}}, {{"_BFS", 1, 0}}, - {{"_BIF", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_PACKAGE}}, /* Fixed-length (9 Int),(4 Str) */ - {{{ACPI_PTYPE1_FIXED, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER, 9, ACPI_RTYPE_STRING}, 4,0}}, + {{"_BIF", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_PACKAGE} }, /* Fixed-length (9 Int),(4 Str/Buf) */ + {{{ACPI_PTYPE1_FIXED, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER, 9, + ACPI_RTYPE_STRING | ACPI_RTYPE_BUFFER}, 4, 0} }, {{"_BIX", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_PACKAGE}}, /* Fixed-length (16 Int),(4 Str) */ {{{ACPI_PTYPE1_FIXED, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER, 16, ACPI_RTYPE_STRING}, 4, -- 1.6.0.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
