Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:14:23 -0400 | From | Thomas Hood <> | Subject | Re: Problem: PnP BIOS driver reports outdated information |
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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.
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