ACPICA: Predefined name repair: automatically remove null package elements
This change will automatically remove embedded and trailing NULL
package elements from returned package objects that are defined
to containe a variable number of sub-packages. The driver is then
presented with a package with no null elements to deal with.
ACPICA BZ 819.
http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=819
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/acnamesp.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h
index 14cef45..61edb15 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acnamesp.h
@@ -296,6 +296,11 @@
acpi_status validate_status,
union acpi_operand_object **return_object_ptr);
+void
+acpi_ns_remove_null_elements(struct acpi_predefined_data *data,
+ u8 package_type,
+ union acpi_operand_object *obj_desc);
+
/*
* nssearch - Namespace searching and entry
*/