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authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>2008-04-10 19:06:43 +0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-04-22 19:08:51 -0400
commitcd0b2248241f4146152fb04a6bf4bccb6ce0478a (patch)
tree072ccaed2ccaa225c6012356c280788fbf2afe16 /drivers/acpi/utilities
parent7a5bb9964512c5313af19310c6a3002ec54f7336 (diff)
ACPICA: Fixes for external Reference Objects
All Reference Objects returned via the AcpiEvaluteObject interface are now marked as type "REFERENCE" instead of "ANY". The type ANY is now reservered for NULL objects - either NULL package elements or unresolved named references. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/utilities')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c32
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c
index 4e9a62b34ae..2a57c2c2c78 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utcopy.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
#include <acpi/acpi.h>
#include <acpi/amlcode.h>
+#include <acpi/acnamesp.h>
+
#define _COMPONENT ACPI_UTILITIES
ACPI_MODULE_NAME("utcopy")
@@ -172,22 +174,21 @@ acpi_ut_copy_isimple_to_esimple(union acpi_operand_object *internal_object,
case ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_REFERENCE:
- /*
- * This is an object reference. Attempt to dereference it.
- */
+ /* This is an object reference. */
+
switch (internal_object->reference.opcode) {
case AML_INT_NAMEPATH_OP:
/* For namepath, return the object handle ("reference") */
default:
- /*
- * Use the object type of "Any" to indicate a reference
- * to object containing a handle to an ACPI named object.
- */
- external_object->type = ACPI_TYPE_ANY;
+
+ /* We are referring to the namespace node */
+
external_object->reference.handle =
internal_object->reference.node;
+ external_object->reference.actual_type =
+ acpi_ns_get_type(internal_object->reference.node);
break;
}
break;
@@ -460,6 +461,7 @@ acpi_ut_copy_esimple_to_isimple(union acpi_object *external_object,
case ACPI_TYPE_STRING:
case ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER:
case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
+ case ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_REFERENCE:
internal_object = acpi_ut_create_internal_object((u8)
external_object->
@@ -469,6 +471,11 @@ acpi_ut_copy_esimple_to_isimple(union acpi_object *external_object,
}
break;
+ case ACPI_TYPE_ANY: /* This is the case for a NULL object */
+
+ *ret_internal_object = NULL;
+ return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
+
default:
/* All other types are not supported */
@@ -522,6 +529,15 @@ acpi_ut_copy_esimple_to_isimple(union acpi_object *external_object,
internal_object->integer.value = external_object->integer.value;
break;
+ case ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_REFERENCE:
+
+ /* TBD: should validate incoming handle */
+
+ internal_object->reference.opcode = AML_INT_NAMEPATH_OP;
+ internal_object->reference.node =
+ external_object->reference.handle;
+ break;
+
default:
/* Other types can't get here */
break;