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SubjectRe: Problem: PnP BIOS driver reports outdated information
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> think speed is a big issue here.  Are there other reasons
> for maintaining a device list in the driver?

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

Alan
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