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* [PATCH] ACPI: Battery: Allow extract string from integer
@ 2007-10-29 20:29 Alexey Starikovskiy
  2007-10-29 20:57 ` Len Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alexey Starikovskiy @ 2007-10-29 20:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LenBrown; +Cc: Linux-acpi

Some machines return integer instead of expected string.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
---

 drivers/acpi/battery.c |   25 +++++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
index 02a396d..6c06879 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static int extract_package(struct acpi_battery *battery,
 			   union acpi_object *package,
 			   struct acpi_offsets *offsets, int num)
 {
-	int i, *x;
+	int i;
 	union acpi_object *element;
 	if (package->type != ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE)
 		return -EFAULT;
@@ -269,16 +269,21 @@ static int extract_package(struct acpi_battery *battery,
 			return -EFAULT;
 		element = &package->package.elements[i];
 		if (offsets[i].mode) {
-			if (element->type != ACPI_TYPE_STRING &&
-			    element->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER)
-				return -EFAULT;
-			strncpy((u8 *)battery + offsets[i].offset,
-				element->string.pointer, 32);
+			u8 *ptr = (u8 *)battery + offsets[i].offset;
+			if (element->type == ACPI_TYPE_STRING ||
+			    element->type == ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER)
+				strncpy(ptr, element->string.pointer, 32);
+			else if (element->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
+				strncpy(ptr, (u8 *)&element->integer.value,
+					sizeof(acpi_integer));
+				ptr[sizeof(acpi_integer)] = 0;
+			} else return -EFAULT;
 		} else {
-			if (element->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER)
-				return -EFAULT;
-			x = (int *)((u8 *)battery + offsets[i].offset);
-			*x = element->integer.value;
+			if (element->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
+				int *x = (int *)((u8 *)battery +
+						offsets[i].offset);
+				*x = element->integer.value;
+			} else return -EFAULT;
 		}
 	}
 	return 0;


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