_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@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Added 31 new names for ACPI 4.0.
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>
Added one new package type, a package that contains a revision number and
a variable number of sub-packages. Restructured the module to
put the sub-package list traversal in a separate function.
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>
Enhance the explanations of the various package return types
for clarity.
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>
Alexey Starikovskiy
Bob Moore
Lin Ming
Len Brown