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

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2007 03:15:33 -0400
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	trenn@...e.de
Cc:	Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	acpi4asus-user <acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers.


> BTW: I also saw a laptop (IIRC it was a sony) with asus and sony ACPI
> device.
> When both drivers got loaded things broke.
> A solution was to only let the asus driver get active if the device is
> known. Currently, not sure whether still (I sent a patch a while ago),
> the Asus driver falls back to a default ("M6N"?) configuration. IMO this
> is a bit too dangerous and instead a message like "unsupported ASUS
> model found, please send acpidump to linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org".

This is pretty scary.
Can you drop the acpidump output into a bugzilla?

thanks,
-Len
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