From: jdthood@home.dhs.org (Thomas Hood)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PnPBIOS 2.4.9-ac1[56] Vaio fix
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:54:49 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011002015449.F367480B@thanatos.toad.net> (raw)
I wrote:
> We need to know when is_sony_vaio_laptop so that we can
> stop this from happening. So either we put the dmi scan
> earlier (which Alan says is in the works) or else we allow
> the creation of the proc entries at init time but reject
> read/write accesses after init time. I'll make up a patch
> that does the latter, but it would be nicest if the proc
> entries were omitted altogether.
On second thought I think I'll just wait for the dmi scan
to be moved and in the meantime warn Vaio users no to
read or write the numerically named files under /proc/bus/pnp.
That means not using lspnp or setpnp without the '-b' option
either.
--
Thomas Hood
(Don't reply to the From: address but to jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk)
next reply other threads:[~2001-10-02 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-02 1:54 Thomas Hood [this message]
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2001-10-02 15:15 [PATCH] PnPBIOS 2.4.9-ac1[56] Vaio fix Thomas Hood
2001-10-02 13:37 Thomas Hood
2001-10-01 12:54 Thomas Hood
2001-10-01 13:41 ` Stelian Pop
2001-10-01 19:21 ` J.D. Hood
2001-10-02 8:35 ` Stelian Pop
2001-10-01 13:44 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-30 17:46 Thomas Hood
2001-10-01 10:04 ` Stelian Pop
2001-10-01 13:50 ` St?phane List
2001-09-29 0:29 Thomas Hood
2001-09-29 0:28 Thomas Hood
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