linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Platform: add Samsung Laptop platform driver

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:34:33 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Nikolai Kondrashov <spbnick@...il.com>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Platform: add Samsung Laptop platform driver

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:07:15PM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 07:03 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >Are you sure this was the driver you just built that I sent you?  Can
> >you send the output of 'modinfo samsung-laptop'?
> Yes, I'm pretty sure. Here is the modinfo output:
> 
> filename: /lib/modules/2.6.37+/kernel/drivers/staging/samsung-laptop/samsung-laptop.ko
> license:        GPL
> description:    Samsung Backlight driver
> author:         Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> alias:          dmi*:svn*SAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.*:pn*N130*:rn*N130*:
> alias:          dmi*:svn*SAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.*:pn*N128*:rn*N128*:
> depends:        rfkill

Ok, this shows you are not loading the driver I sent to you, this is the
"original" one I sent, which will fail for your machine.

You need to build and install the one I sent you.

thanks,

greg k-h
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