Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI / bus: Switch to use new generic UUID API

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:37:41PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> > +   in_params[0].buffer.pointer     = (u8 *)&guid;
> >>
> >> Any idea why the pointer is defined as a u8 * in union acpi_object
> >> instead of a void?
> >
> > I guess this question to Rafael.
> 
> That data type is defined in upstream ACPICA and the reason why it is
> defined the way it is has something to do with history I suppose.

Ok, I'll send a patch to fix it - just about every user of the field
currently requires a cast, which is not a good thing.