From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:15:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:14:56 -0400 Received: from sushi.toad.net ([162.33.130.105]:61058 "EHLO sushi.toad.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:14:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAA946F.2D2900AC@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:14:23 -0400 From: Thomas Hood X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-ac10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem: PnP BIOS driver reports outdated information In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > If you query the current device status on a Vaio and some other boxes > using the 32bit API your computer dies horribly shortly afterwards. > > So yes - we should be handling setpnp in the kernel, but no we can't query > the bios for the data How about this: pnpbios functions that scan the device list optionally (depending on a flag of some sort, set according to whether or not one has an evil BIOS) cause the list to be rebuilt first. This would require only slight changes to the code. I would offer a patch, but I don't know how the aforementioned flag should be implemented. Thomas Hood jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk