Re: New APM BIOS patch
Russ Steffen (rsteffen@ia.net)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:20:27 -0800
On 03-Nov-98, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is a new APM BIOS driver patch on my home page. It is
> against 2.1.127pre3. Its does the following:
> - all configuration options (and then some) are now
> settable at boot time by passing "apm=..." to
> the kernel.
> - a long standing bug has been fixed so that suspend/standby
> initiated by "apm -S/s" doesn't do BUSY callbacks to the
> BIOS
> - the beginnings of the big patch from Craig Markwardt
> <craigm@pcasun3.gsfc.nasa.gov> are in there, but not
> the ioctl interface (yet)
>
> I have put this out for testing and to let you all know I have
> not forsaken you :-)
>
> Please send bug reports and/or suggestions.
Just a question, does it fix that pesky only-root-can-suspend-the-machine-
no-matter-what-the-permissions-on-/dev/apm_bios-bug ?
You can find the offending code near line 985 on an unpatched 2.1.125
version of arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.
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Russ Steffen
rsteffen@ia.net
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