ACPICA: Correctly support references in the union acpi_object.

This change fixes the support to allow references (namespace nodes)
to be passed as arguments to control methods via the evaluate object
interface. This is probably most useful for testing purposes, however.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utcopy.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utcopy.c
index 95e55f5bbabe..270c16464dd9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utcopy.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utcopy.c
@@ -535,10 +535,10 @@ acpi_ut_copy_esimple_to_isimple(union acpi_object *external_object,
 
         case ACPI_TYPE_LOCAL_REFERENCE:
 
-                /* TBD: should validate incoming handle */
+                /* An incoming reference is defined to be a namespace node */
 
-                internal_object->reference.class = ACPI_REFCLASS_NAME;
-                internal_object->reference.node =
+                internal_object->reference.class = ACPI_REFCLASS_REFOF;
+                internal_object->reference.object =
                     external_object->reference.handle;
                 break;