ACPICA: Support for external package objects as method arguments
Implemented support to allow Package objects to be passed as
method arguments to the acpi_evaluate_object interface. Previously,
this would return an AE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED exception.
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
index 4696124..db0b9ba 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
@@ -146,6 +146,48 @@
/*******************************************************************************
*
+ * FUNCTION: acpi_ut_create_package_object
+ *
+ * PARAMETERS: Count - Number of package elements
+ *
+ * RETURN: Pointer to a new Package object, null on failure
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION: Create a fully initialized package object
+ *
+ ******************************************************************************/
+
+union acpi_operand_object *acpi_ut_create_package_object(u32 count)
+{
+ union acpi_operand_object *package_desc;
+ union acpi_operand_object **package_elements;
+
+ ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE_U32(ut_create_package_object, count);
+
+ /* Create a new Package object */
+
+ package_desc = acpi_ut_create_internal_object(ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE);
+ if (!package_desc) {
+ return_PTR(NULL);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Create the element array. Count+1 allows the array to be null
+ * terminated.
+ */
+ package_elements = ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED((acpi_size)
+ (count + 1) * sizeof(void *));
+ if (!package_elements) {
+ ACPI_FREE(package_desc);
+ return_PTR(NULL);
+ }
+
+ package_desc->package.count = count;
+ package_desc->package.elements = package_elements;
+ return_PTR(package_desc);
+}
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ *
* FUNCTION: acpi_ut_create_buffer_object
*
* PARAMETERS: buffer_size - Size of buffer to be created