Re: PnP BIOS + 2.4.9-ac16 = no boot

Stelian Pop
2001-09-28T14:55:08Z

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:41:45AM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote:

> Stelian Pop wrote:
> > What about making a conditional on 'is_sony_vaio_laptop' here ?
> > (but you need to extends the conditionnal export of this variable
> > from dmi_scan.c / i386_ksyms.c).
>
> In addition to applying the patch I just sent
> (thood-pnpbiosvaio-patch-20010928-3), you will have
> to move the definition of is_sony_vaio_laptop outside
> the #ifdefs in arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c and i386_ksyms.c

No need for me since I have CONFIG_SONYPI on.

> You or Alan: For the cleaned up patch, do we export this
> variable unconditionally?

I'd vote for unconditionnally define one int instead of having
something like:
#if defined(CONFIG_SONYPI) || defined(CONFIG_SONYPI_MODULE) || ( defined(CONFIG_PNP) && defined(CONFIG_PROC) )
(and maybe other defines in the future... :( ).

Stelian.
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