ACPICA: Change type of _TZ from ThermalZone to Device
The type of ThermalZone was confusing hosts as they process the
various ThermalZone objects. ACPICA BZ 876.
http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=876
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utglobal.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utglobal.c
index 45f6334..4a5dcaa 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utglobal.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utglobal.c
@@ -154,14 +154,16 @@
* 1) _SB_ is defined to be a device to allow \_SB_._INI to be run
* during the initialization sequence.
* 2) _TZ_ is defined to be a thermal zone in order to allow ASL code to
- * perform a Notify() operation on it.
+ * perform a Notify() operation on it. 09/2010: Changed to type Device.
+ * This still allows notifies, but does not confuse host code that
+ * searches for valid thermal_zone objects.
*/
const struct acpi_predefined_names acpi_gbl_pre_defined_names[] = {
{"_GPE", ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_SCOPE, NULL},
{"_PR_", ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_SCOPE, NULL},
{"_SB_", ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE, NULL},
{"_SI_", ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_SCOPE, NULL},
- {"_TZ_", ACPI_TYPE_THERMAL, NULL},
+ {"_TZ_", ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE, NULL},
{"_REV", ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER, (char *)ACPI_CA_SUPPORT_LEVEL},
{"_OS_", ACPI_TYPE_STRING, ACPI_OS_NAME},
{"_GL_", ACPI_TYPE_MUTEX, (char *)1},