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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h2
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c5
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h
index 3c76edea6803..4c081c436089 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/acutils.h
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ int acpi_ut_stricmp(char *string1, char *string2);
acpi_status acpi_ut_strtoul64(char *string, u32 base, u64 *ret_integer);
-void acpi_ut_print_string(char *string, u8 max_length);
+void acpi_ut_print_string(char *string, u16 max_length);
void ut_convert_backslashes(char *pathname);
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c
index c53759b76a3f..cb1e9cc32d5f 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c
@@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ acpi_status acpi_ut_strtoul64(char *string, u32 base, u64 *ret_integer)
* FUNCTION: acpi_ut_print_string
*
* PARAMETERS: string - Null terminated ASCII string
- * max_length - Maximum output length
+ * max_length - Maximum output length. Used to constrain the
+ * length of strings during debug output only.
*
* RETURN: None
*
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_ut_strtoul64(char *string, u32 base, u64 *ret_integer)
*
******************************************************************************/
-void acpi_ut_print_string(char *string, u8 max_length)
+void acpi_ut_print_string(char *string, u16 max_length)
{
u32 i;