linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:23:29 +0900
From:	Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>
To:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Cc:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kasievers@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:53:27PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers.
...
> > model-specific drivers like thinkpad-acpi
> Not in general, only if the driver provides additional functions and the
> ACPI device does not appear on machines that need those additional
> functions.
> E.g. the asus driver AFAIK serves exactly the ACPI device it registers
> for.

and the sony-laptop as well. Thanks for doing that, will test as soon as
possible on my vaios here.

-- 
mattia
:wq!
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