> think speed is a big issue here. Are there other reasons
> for maintaining a device list in the driver?
If you query the current device status on a Vaio and some other boxes
using the 32bit API your computer dies horribly shortly afterwards.
So yes - we should be handling setpnp in the kernel, but no we can't query
the bios for the data
Alan
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