ACPICA: Headers: Delete bogus node_array array of pointers from AEST table
authorJessica Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
Wed, 5 Apr 2023 13:32:06 +0000 (15:32 +0200)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 6 Apr 2023 18:29:10 +0000 (20:29 +0200)
commit86f240a2f7e953840f3b837bc23e39d515a653ed
treed6164a255ed66b1cb816b4e0e4b158489d1b3308
parent7e364e56293bb98cae1b55fd835f5991c4e96e7d
ACPICA: Headers: Delete bogus node_array array of pointers from AEST table

ACPICA commit f0c4a06f1dfc4886d4e0c2aa30bc57b10c5a8c53

Like many tables, this is a header followed by multiple subtables of
varying self-identifying types, and ACPICA does not normally add a field
for the subtables, instead relying on pointer arithmetic past the end of
the first header struct, since indexing a flexible array member is
meaningless for variable-length entries. If we really wanted a field for
this, we could use a u8 flexible array member, but it contradicts the
current style. Using void *, however, is categorically wrong, as ACPI
tables never contain native C-language pointers.

Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/f0c4a06f
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
include/acpi/actbl2.h