linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros

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Message-ID: <20080609000339.GA28756@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:03:39 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>
Cc:	rpurdie@...ys.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 08:32:55PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> It should be pretty easy to figure out the right string for
> DMI autoloading. Just do a cat /sys/class/dmi/id/modalias and replace the
> part of the string you consider not very useful for identifying the
> machine with (dates, version numbers, empty strings, 0123456
> rubbish data, ...) with an asterisk.

Ah! Spaces are removed in the sysfs interface. That would explain the 
problem. I'll send a new version.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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