Re: 2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:54:22 +1100 (EST), Neale Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If this is a correct and justifiable fix for 2.2 then in 2.4 should >dmi_scan.o be included in export-objs? Or is there a "better" way of >doing this? It should already be correct in 2.4. In 2.2 the OX_OBJS list

Re: 2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-31 Thread Neale Banks
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > >If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan then there > >is potentially a problem with buggy BIOSen that oops instead of reporting > >power status > > This should fix the link order, at the (small) expense of compiling > dmi_scan for

Re: 2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-31 Thread Neale Banks
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan then there is potentially a problem with buggy BIOSen that oops instead of reporting power status This should fix the link order, at the (small) expense of compiling dmi_scan for exported

Re: 2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:54:22 +1100 (EST), Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is a correct and justifiable fix for 2.2 then in 2.4 should dmi_scan.o be included in export-objs? Or is there a "better" way of doing this? It should already be correct in 2.4. In 2.2 the OX_OBJS list is

Re: 2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:47:02 +1100 (EST), Neale Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Looking more closely at a 2.2.18 bootup tonight I see that apm stuff >appears in dmesg before dmi_scan does (I added "#define DUMP_DMI" in >dmi_scan.c). > >If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the

2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-30 Thread Neale Banks
Hi Stephen, Looking more closely at a 2.2.18 bootup tonight I see that apm stuff appears in dmesg before dmi_scan does (I added "#define DUMP_DMI" in dmi_scan.c). If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan then there is potentially a problem with buggy BIOSen that oops

2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-30 Thread Neale Banks
Hi Stephen, Looking more closely at a 2.2.18 bootup tonight I see that apm stuff appears in dmesg before dmi_scan does (I added "#define DUMP_DMI" in dmi_scan.c). If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan then there is potentially a problem with buggy BIOSen that oops

Re: 2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:47:02 +1100 (EST), Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking more closely at a 2.2.18 bootup tonight I see that apm stuff appears in dmesg before dmi_scan does (I added "#define DUMP_DMI" in dmi_scan.c). If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan