On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:21:04PM +0100, J.D. Hood wrote:
> However, if is_sony_vaio_laptop is 0 at pnpbios init
> time then if you look in /proc/bus/pnp you'll see numerical
> entries there.
Yes:
# cd /proc/bus/pnp/
# ls
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0b 0c 0d 0e boot devices
# ls boot
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0b 0c 0d 0e
> Want to crash your machine? Just read from
> them. (The numerically named entries in /proc/bus/pnp/boot
> should be okay to read and write, though.)
It doesn't crash. I did a "cat /proc/bus/pnp/0* > /dev/null"
and the laptop is still alive.
> We need to know when is_sony_vaio_laptop so that we can
> stop this from happening.
See above.
> So either we put the dmi scan
> earlier (which Alan says is in the works)
This is the solution, as Alan said DMI idents will be needed for
some other boards (GX ?).
Alan: are you already working on this or you're waiting for a
patch ?
> or else we allow
> the creation of the proc entries at init time but reject
> read/write accesses after init time. I'll make up a patch
> that does the latter, but it would be nicest if the proc
> entries were omitted altogether.
If we cannot read nor write them, there is no point in showing
them... (we already have the devices file to show the list).
Stelian.
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