Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Problem: PnP BIOS driver reports outdated information | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:09:05 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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
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