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

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:17:06 +0200
From:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
To:	Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	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.

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 16:33 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:15:33AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?
> 
> and add myself to the cc-list?
I don't have such a machine, opening a bug does not make much sense.
Acpidump and more info is here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166920

Thanks,

   Thomas

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