Re: [PATCH] PnP Updates for 2.6.2-rc2

[Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>]

Recently many PnPBIOS bugs have been triggered by static resource information
requests.  This patch makes an effort to further avoid making them.

diff -urN a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
--- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c	2004-01-09 06:59:06.000000000 +0000
+++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c	2004-01-17 21:45:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
 	node = pnpbios_kmalloc(node_info.max_node_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!node)
 		return -1;
-	if (pnp_bios_get_dev_node(&nodenum, (char )PNPMODE_STATIC, node))
+	if (pnp_bios_get_dev_node(&nodenum, (char )PNPMODE_DYNAMIC, node))
 		return -ENODEV;
 	if(pnpbios_write_resources_to_node(res, node)<0) {
 		kfree(node);