linux-kernel - Re: [patch 17/18] ISAPNP: handle independent options following dependent ones

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Date:	Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:39:24 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
CC:	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>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 17/18] ISAPNP: handle independent options following dependent
 ones

On 05-06-08 00:09, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> The ISAPNP spec recommends that independent options precede
> dependent ones, but this is not actually required.  The current
> ISAPNP code incorrectly puts such trailing independent options
> at the end of the last dependent option list.
> 
> This patch fixes that bug by resetting the current option list
> to the independent list when we see an "End Dependent Functions"
> tag.  PNPBIOS and PNPACPI handle this the same way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>

Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>

Rene.

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