RE: Oops in ACPI with git latest

[James Bottomley]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 15:34 -0700, Moore, Robert wrote:
> +	if (!output.pointer)
> +		return AE_NULL_OBJECT;
> +
> 
> This probably won't work. acpi_evaluate_object currently doesn't touch the pointer parameter if there is no return value, it only sets the length to zero.

Actually, it does.

> So, you might try this:
> 
> +	if (!output.length)
> +		return AE_NULL_OBJECT;
> +

This also works.

James


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