Documentation: ACPI: Use all-string data node references
authorSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 9 Apr 2025 08:47:38 +0000 (11:47 +0300)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 9 Apr 2025 14:39:17 +0000 (16:39 +0200)
commit6db0261f3776bde01ae916ad8e1cb2ded3ba1a2b
treee2213bb3b1ac79175eccc9a613ee3720d67300ef
parent0af2f6be1b4281385b618cb86ad946eded089ac8
Documentation: ACPI: Use all-string data node references

Document that references to data nodes shall use string-only references
instead of a device reference and a succession of the first package
entries of hierarchical data node references.

Fixes: 9880702d123f ("ACPI: property: Support using strings in reference properties")
Cc: 6.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.8+
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250409084738.3657079-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
[ rjw: Clarifying edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/data-node-references.rst
Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/graph.rst
Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/leds.rst