linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/8] PNP: replace pnp_resource_table with dynamically allocated resources

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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 11:17:25 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adam Belay <ambx1@....rr.com>,
	Adam M Belay <abelay@....edu>,
	Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@...e.fr>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/8] PNP: replace pnp_resource_table with dynamically allocated resources

On Thursday 15 May 2008 01:54:42 am Rene Herman wrote:
> On 15-05-08 01:18, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the report.  I think I've fixed the problem.
> 
> I saw it was PnPBIOS by the way. PnPBIOS appears to be obsolete these 
> days; do you have machines to test it on yourself? I do (plenty), so 
> although I'm not being fast with testing anyway, would you want me to 
> switch those from PnPACPI to PnPBIOS?

All of my machines have ACPI, but in this case, I was able to
reproduce the null pointer dereference Andrew by booting with
"pnpacpi=off".

PNPBIOS testing is pretty scarce, though, so anything you
do along those lines would be much appreciated.

Bjorn
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