Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:07:45 +0200
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>, Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch : hdaps on Thinkpad R52
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Hi Franck,

Quoting myself back in April:
> > I just had a mail from another R52 user, reporting that his system
> > (also 1846AQG) also reports ThinkPad H.
> 
> I gathered data on my side too, the three R52 I had reports for used
> "ThinkPad R52" but these had different machine type/model. I guess that
> the 1846AQG is somehow different, but probably you don't know why?
> 
> So I suppose we could add that "ThinkPad H" identifier string to the
> hdaps driver after all, as you proposed in the first place. I'm only
> worried that the "H" suffix is really short, and I hope that no other
> model not supported by the driver (or needing the invert option) will
> ever have the same identifier. Time will tell.

I am told that a newer BIOS of the Thinkpad R52 fixes the machine name
in the DMI table.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/List_of_DMI_IDs#R_series
Can you please confirm this by upgrading the BIOS of your machine and
removing the "ThinkPad H" entry from the hdaps driver?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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