+/* sysfs file that shows description text from the ACPI _STR method */
+static ssize_t description_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf) {
+ struct acpi_device *acpi_dev = to_acpi_device(dev);
+ int result;
+
+ if (acpi_dev->pnp.str_obj == NULL)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * The _STR object contains a Unicode identifier for a device.
+ * We need to convert to utf-8 so it can be displayed.
+ */
+ result = utf16s_to_utf8s(
+ (wchar_t *)acpi_dev->pnp.str_obj->buffer.pointer,
+ acpi_dev->pnp.str_obj->buffer.length,
+ UTF16_LITTLE_ENDIAN, buf,
+ PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ buf[result++] = '\n';
+
+ return result;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(description, 0444, description_show, NULL);
+