Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PnPBIOS 2.4.9-ac1[56] Vaio fix | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:54:49 -0400 (EDT) | From | (Thomas Hood) |
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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.
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