ACPICA: Silence the warning about _BIF returning the buffer

_BIF was returning buffer instead of a string since day 1 of ACPI.
Adding a warning for that is noble, but people don't like
when someone cries wolf in a production system.

Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14379
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h
index cd80d1dd1950..57bdaf6ffab1 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h
@@ -203,8 +203,9 @@ static const union acpi_predefined_info predefined_names[] =
         {{"_BCT", 1, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER}},
         {{"_BDN", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER}},
         {{"_BFS", 1, 0}},
-        {{"_BIF", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_PACKAGE}}, /* Fixed-length (9 Int),(4 Str) */
-                          {{{ACPI_PTYPE1_FIXED, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER, 9, ACPI_RTYPE_STRING}, 4,0}},
+        {{"_BIF", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_PACKAGE} }, /* Fixed-length (9 Int),(4 Str/Buf) */
+                          {{{ACPI_PTYPE1_FIXED, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER, 9,
+                             ACPI_RTYPE_STRING | ACPI_RTYPE_BUFFER}, 4, 0} },
 
         {{"_BIX", 0, ACPI_RTYPE_PACKAGE}},      /* Fixed-length (16 Int),(4 Str) */
         {{{ACPI_PTYPE1_FIXED, ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER, 16, ACPI_RTYPE_STRING}, 4,