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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/utilities/utmisc.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utmisc.c b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utmisc.c
index 4b0305174d2..36d88158f9f 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utmisc.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utmisc.c
@@ -582,26 +582,25 @@ u8 acpi_ut_valid_acpi_name(u32 name)
*
******************************************************************************/
-acpi_name acpi_ut_repair_name(acpi_name name)
+acpi_name acpi_ut_repair_name(char *name)
{
- char *name_ptr = ACPI_CAST_PTR(char, &name);
- char new_name[ACPI_NAME_SIZE];
acpi_native_uint i;
+ char new_name[ACPI_NAME_SIZE];
for (i = 0; i < ACPI_NAME_SIZE; i++) {
- new_name[i] = name_ptr[i];
+ new_name[i] = name[i];
/*
* Replace a bad character with something printable, yet technically
* still invalid. This prevents any collisions with existing "good"
* names in the namespace.
*/
- if (!acpi_ut_valid_acpi_char(name_ptr[i], i)) {
+ if (!acpi_ut_valid_acpi_char(name[i], i)) {
new_name[i] = '*';
}
}
- return (*ACPI_CAST_PTR(u32, new_name));
+ return (*(u32 *) new_name);
}
/*******************************************************************************