ACPICA: Add mechanism for early object repairs on a per-name basis

Adds the framework to allow object repairs very early in the
return object analysis. Enables repairs like string->unicode,
etc. Bob Moore, Lv Zheng.

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>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h
index 805f419086ab..9d45f976a31e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/aclocal.h
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ struct acpi_predefined_data {
 	union acpi_operand_object *parent_package;
 	struct acpi_namespace_node *node;
 	u32 flags;
+	u32 return_btype;
 	u8 node_flags;
 };
 
@@ -371,6 +372,20 @@ struct acpi_predefined_data {
 #define ACPI_OBJECT_REPAIRED    1
 #define ACPI_OBJECT_WRAPPED     2
 
+/* Return object auto-repair info */
+
+typedef acpi_status(*acpi_object_converter) (union acpi_operand_object
+					     *original_object,
+					     union acpi_operand_object
+					     **converted_object);
+
+struct acpi_simple_repair_info {
+	char name[ACPI_NAME_SIZE];
+	u32 unexpected_btypes;
+	u32 package_index;
+	acpi_object_converter object_converter;
+};
+
 /*
  * Bitmapped return value types
  * Note: the actual data types must be contiguous, a loop in nspredef.c