ACPICA: Allow multiple backslash prefix in namepaths
commit94f67585bfe7b543f72ec3e55a768d3aa1a79b6e
authorLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:54:39 +0000 (13 10:54 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:00:45 +0000 (6 14:00 -0800)
tree7160facbb1016e199b91ed6905e2b4d5c9db7654
parent8dad4906c15a3907e96a4fad3119e05c407418d1
ACPICA: Allow multiple backslash prefix in namepaths

commit d037c5fd7367548191eab2b376a1d08c4ffaf7ff upstream.

In a fully qualified namepath, allow multiple backslash prefixes.
This can happen because of the use of a double-backslash in strings
(since backslash is the escape character) causing confusion.
ACPICA BZ 739 Lin Ming.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=739

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/acpi/namespace/nsutils.c