Commit 625505b5 authored Jan 20, 2015 by Alan Cox Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Jan 25, 2015

pnpbios: bail out on strange errors



A small number of systems respond to PnP dock queries with bogus values.
This causes us to keep logging an error every 2 seconds. Instead of trying
again just assume the BIOS is crapware and doesn't actually have dock
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent f989e554

drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ static int pnp_dock_thread(void *unused)
		break;
		default:
		pnpbios_print_status("pnp_dock_thread", status);
		continue;
		printk(KERN_WARNING "PnPBIOS: disabling dock monitoring.\n");
		complete_and_exit(&unload_sem, 0);
		}
		if (d != docked) {
		if (pnp_dock_event(d, &now) == 0) {