linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: don't bother loading on unsupported systems

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Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:04:12 -0400
From:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:	Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk>
Cc:	aceracpi@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: don't bother loading on unsupported systems

On Monday 06 April 2009 15:53:11 Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Monday 06 April 2009 14:40:16 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > So have acer-wmi just bail on unsupported systems -- includes only my
> > particular model of the Aspire One atm, but a larger list of unsupported
> > systems can be found here:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware
> >
> > This might well become unnecessary once the WMI sysfs interface mentioned
> > in acer-wmi.c exists and the wild-card dmi modalias is gone, but for now...
> > I prefer to have working wireless, and this isn't exactly an obvious root
> > cause. I lack the hardware to further extend the blacklist, but doing so is
> > trivial. Whether or not loading acer-wmi actually negatively impacts
> > machines other than the AAO is unknown at this time.
> 
> NAK.
> 
> An equivalent patch to this was submitted to the ACPI tree two days ago (which 
> blacklists both the known Aspire One DMI entries) and is now upstream (and 
> will also be backported to the next stable release).
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a74dd5fdabcd34c93e17e9c7024eeb503c92b048

Heh, that's what I get for waiting two days before actually submitting... ;)

Works for me.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com
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