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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:15:49 +0100
From: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>
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To: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>
CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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       "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver
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Yu, Luming wrote:
>>If your laptop provides the hotkey events via ACPI, simply don't use
>>wistron_btns.
> 
> 
> wistron driver should be disabled if acpi hotkey enabled.
It is implicitly disabled because it contains DMI ids of known laptops,
and its module_init() fails with -ENODEV when used on other hardware,
before ever touching the BIOS.

I therefore can't see how it could break anything unless you have
explicitly supplied module parameters to override this check.
	Mirek
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