linux-kernel - [PATCH] Temporarily add modalias for Dell DMI match on dell-wmi

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Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:22:57 -0500
From:	Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@...l.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Temporarily add modalias for Dell DMI match on dell-wmi

Hi:

Until the sysfs interface is ready, there is no way to automatically
load dell-wmi.  The equivalent module for Acer laptops, acer-wmi has a
workaround in place to match on the DMI tables for the machine.  This
type of solution works on for Dell as well and gets the module loading
when necessary.

Patch is attached to prevent Exchange messing up line breaks.

Regards
-- 
Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
mario_limonciello@...l.com

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