linux-kernel - Re: acerhdf: BIOS product mismatch due to whitespace

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Message-ID: <cone.1260110279.127989.3159.1000@onepiie>
Date:	Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:37:59 +0100
From:	Peter Feuerer <peter@...e.net>
To:	Ian E. Morgan <penguin.wrangler@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: acerhdf: BIOS product mismatch due to whitespace

Hi Ian,

Ian E. Morgan writes:
> Having just upgraded my AOA150 to 2.6.32, acerhdf was complaining:
> 
> acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.18
> acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer/AOA150
> /v0.3310, please report, aborting!
> 
> DMI reports the product as "AOA150         " (i.e. 9 spaces after the
> 6-character model name). This causes the product match to fail, so I
> had to use force_product="AOA150".
> 
> acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.18
> acerhdf: forcing BIOS product: AOA150

could you please be so kind and test:
http://piie.net/files/acerhdf_kmod-0.5.22.tar.gz

Thank you!

kind regards,
--peter
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