Duncan Laurie has uploaded this change for review.

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arch/x86/acpi_device: Allow empty child references

Currently if a child table is created and added to a property list
without adding any properties to that child it will generate an
empty package.  For example:

struct acpi_dp *dsd = acpi_dp_new_table("_DSD");
struct acpi_dp *prop = acpi_dp_new_table("PROP");
acpi_dp_add_child(dsd, "dsd-prop", prop);
acpi_dp_write(dsd);

Results in an empty PROP package:

Name (_DSD, Package (2)
{
  ToUUID("dbb8e3e6-5886-4ba6-8795-1319f52a966b")
  Package (1) {
    Package (2) {
      "dsd-prop",
      "PROP"
    }
  }
}
Name (PROP, Package (0)
{
}

Empty packages don't seem to be explicitly forbidden, but they don't
serve a purpose with device properties.  Instead, if packages without
any properties or children are skipped then this empty package is not
written and the added child property can refer to another property that
is already defined.

This allows creating property references to existing tables, which can
save duplication and namespace collision issues with nested properties.

BUG=b:146482091

Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@google.com>
Change-Id: I9fee2ceb8a4496b90c7210533eee8c2b186cdfff
---
M src/arch/x86/acpi_device.c
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/80/40880/1

diff --git a/src/arch/x86/acpi_device.c b/src/arch/x86/acpi_device.c
index b4016ef..f3ee1e7 100644
--- a/src/arch/x86/acpi_device.c
+++ b/src/arch/x86/acpi_device.c
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@
 	char *dp_count, *prop_count = NULL;
 	int child_count = 0;
 
-	if (!table || table->type != ACPI_DP_TYPE_TABLE)
+	if (!table || table->type != ACPI_DP_TYPE_TABLE || !table->next)
 		return;
 
 	/* Name (name) */

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