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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
Matthew Fischer, Plano, TX (US);
Benjamin Preston, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Raghuram Kota, Plano, TX (US);
Ajay Joshi, Richardson, TX (US);
Matthew Fischer, Plano, TX (US);
Benjamin Preston, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Raghuram Kota, Plano, TX (US);
Ajay Joshi, Richardson, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for constructing a user application's Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) namespace in a computer platform employing an ACPI-compatible implementation is disclosed. A traversing function is operable to traverse a kernel ACPI namespace nodal tree and provide the name of the node of the tree to the user application's ACPI namespace. The traversing function may withhold a copy of a particular node if that node is a control method object not included in a list of safe control methods. Another embodiment provides a scheme for assisting a user application's access to a control method object.