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authorLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>2015-07-01 14:44:17 +0800
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2015-07-01 23:17:54 +0200
commit8f6f03610483962a9ebfaf38592909a3f0bcfa53 (patch)
tree855adcc25eb0301e918db300152dd372ca00aec1 /drivers/acpi/acpica/nssearch.c
parenta8bd0f07eb594df51845d33f272fb1952fec1a6f (diff)
downloadlinux-8f6f03610483962a9ebfaf38592909a3f0bcfa53.tar.bz2
ACPICA: Namespace: Add support to allow overriding objects
ACPICA commit 6084e34e44565c6293f446c0202b5e59b055e351 This patch adds an "NamespaceOverride" flag in struct acpi_walk_state, and allows namespace objects to be overridden when this flag is set. Lv Zheng. Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/6084e34e Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/nssearch.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/nssearch.c22
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nssearch.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nssearch.c
index 4a9d4a66016e..47fbe5b33524 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nssearch.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nssearch.c
@@ -325,8 +325,26 @@ acpi_ns_search_and_enter(u32 target_name,
* If we found it AND the request specifies that a find is an error,
* return the error
*/
- if ((status == AE_OK) && (flags & ACPI_NS_ERROR_IF_FOUND)) {
- status = AE_ALREADY_EXISTS;
+ if (status == AE_OK) {
+
+ /* The node was found in the namespace */
+
+ /*
+ * If the namespace override feature is enabled for this node,
+ * delete any existing node. This can only happen during the
+ * boot stage, thus it is safe to remove the node here.
+ */
+ if (flags & ACPI_NS_OVERRIDE_IF_FOUND) {
+ acpi_ns_delete_children(*return_node);
+ acpi_ns_remove_node(*return_node);
+ *return_node = ACPI_ENTRY_NOT_FOUND;
+ }
+
+ /* Return an error if we don't expect to find the object */
+
+ else if (flags & ACPI_NS_ERROR_IF_FOUND) {
+ status = AE_ALREADY_EXISTS;
+ }
}
#ifdef ACPI_ASL_COMPILER
if (*return_node && (*return_node)->type == ACPI_TYPE_ANY) {