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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: EuroBraille/Iris power off
Hi,

excellent! Now if as the next step before inclusion you also add the usual DMI check
(as done by many drivers such as acerhdf etc.),
someone inexperienced who is dumb enough to enable it for his unrelated machine
will actually survive an otherwise raw I/O port access and poweroff vector change ;))

Unless these non-APM, non-ACPI machines don't have any DMI support
either and thus won't even have dmidecode work.....
(in which case I'd strongly suggest adding a 0x340+x port value read verification
to bail driver install in case the machine doesn't have this hardware).

Andreas Mohr


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