Hi, this patch avoid the pnpacpi layer reconized not present device.
There is still issue [1] with the ACPI code that need to fix in order everything work correctly...
Matthieu CASTET
[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3358
--- linux-2.6.9/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c 2004-11-22 20:35:58.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c 2004-11-26 14:46:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ struct pnp_dev *dev; pnp_dbg("ACPI device : hid %s", acpi_device_hid(device)); + + if(!device->status.present) + return -ENODEV; + dev = pnpacpi_kmalloc(sizeof(struct pnp_dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev) { pnp_err("Out of memory");