Re: [2.6.9+] PnPBIOS: Missing SMALL_TAG_ENDDEP tag

From: Adam Belay
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 12:01:53 EST


On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:06:14AM +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
> Adam Belay wrote:
>
> >Could you please send me "pnp.tar" from something like this:
> >
> >mkdir /tmp/pnp; cp /proc/bus/pnp/[0-f][0-f] /tmp/pnp; tar -cf pnp.tar
> >/tmp/pnp; rm -fR /tmp/pnp
> >
> >make sure the pnpbios /proc interface is compiled into the kernel.
> >
> >I'd like to look at the node data to see what's going on.
>
> Sure, attached. In case it's useful/easier, earlier I also booted with
> debugging printks added to pnpbios_parse_resource_option_data, noting
> the tag types encountered. This produced:
>

I appreciate the additional information. I looked through the binary files
manually and confirmed that they are missing an end-dep tag. It should be
harmless however. I think the error message needs to be debug or it could
be removed.

Thanks,
Adam
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