Commit 5572a985 authored Nov 13, 2008 by Bob Moore Committed by Len Brown Dec 29, 2008

ACPICA: Fix to allow aliases within ASL namepaths

Fixes a problem where the use of an alias within a namepath
would result in a not found error or cause the compiler to fault.
Also now allows forward references from the Alias operator itself.
ACPICA BZ 738.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=738



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>

parent 319f8b89

drivers/acpi/namespace/nsaccess.c

+4 −0

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		@@ -588,6 +588,10 @@ acpi_ns_lookup(union acpi_generic_state *scope_info,
		* segments).
		*/
		if (this_node->type == ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_ALIAS) {
		if (!this_node->object) {
		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_NOT_EXIST);
		}

		if (acpi_ns_opens_scope
		(((struct acpi_namespace_node *)this_node->
		object)->type)) {