Re: PnP BIOS driver -- Can it go in?

Re: PnP BIOS driver -- Can it go in?

[Thomas Hood]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Initially yes... it all depends on the state of the driver of course.

The driver is in a fine state for the purposes of the 
lspnp and setpnp utilities.

I'll prepare a patch RSN.

--
Thomas Hood

Re: PNP Bios

[Alan Cox]

> The pnpbios driver the -ac kernels had a driver registration
> interface.  Is that the only or the best way for drivers to
> use the PnP BIOS?  Given that a lot of drivers already use

Its longer term hopefully how all driver interfaces barring the 
real legacy ISA crud will work. We need to make them all look as
similar as possible.

> However we decide to make pnpbios services available to
> drivers, we have smp and hotplug issues to sort out too.

Yep - thats why the docking thread is there. Now we can make it
useful.

> PnP BIOS configures our machines.  Mark the driver
> "experimental" if you like, but please put it in.

Submit it to Linus. I'd agree

PnP BIOS driver -- Can it go in?

[Thomas Hood]

On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 11:10, Alan Cox wrote:
> Submit it to Linus.

Linus and Marcelo: Would either of you accept a patch to add
the pnpbios driver with /proc interface, so we can use lspnp
and setpnp to control how PnP BIOS configures devices?

This driver was in 2.4.x-acy for quite a long time and I
believe that the basic functionality was pretty well
debugged and tested.

Thomas Hood

Re: PnP BIOS driver -- Can it go in?

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On 28 Nov 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 11:10, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Submit it to Linus.
> 
> Linus and Marcelo: Would either of you accept a patch to add
> the pnpbios driver with /proc interface, so we can use lspnp
> and setpnp to control how PnP BIOS configures devices?
> 
> This driver was in 2.4.x-acy for quite a long time and I
> believe that the basic functionality was pretty well
> debugged and tested.

Initially yes... it all depends on the state of the driver of course.

Re: PnP BIOS driver -- Can it go in?

[Aaron Tiensivu]

> > Submit it to Linus.
> Linus and Marcelo: Would either of you accept a patch to add
> the pnpbios driver with /proc interface, so we can use lspnp
> and setpnp to control how PnP BIOS configures devices?

[AOL mode on]
Me too. It makes configuration of my Thinkpad 600e's much more tolerable and
sane.
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