Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758212AbXFSQYF (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:24:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755648AbXFSQXz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:23:55 -0400 Received: from mtoichi13.ns.itscom.net ([219.110.2.183]:36707 "EHLO mtoichi13.ns.itscom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753067AbXFSQXy (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:23:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:23:29 +0900 From: Mattia Dongili To: Thomas Renninger Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Len Brown , linux-kernel , linux-acpi , Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers. Message-ID: <20070619162329.GB3281@inferi.kami.home> References: <1182111863.4204.6.camel@noname> <20070617224947.GA17951@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1182257607.28514.643.camel@queen.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1182257607.28514.643.camel@queen.suse.de> X-Message-Flag: Cranky? Try Free Software instead! X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.22-rc5-1 i686 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Disclaimer: Buh! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 23 On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:53:27PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers. ... > > model-specific drivers like thinkpad-acpi > Not in general, only if the driver provides additional functions and the > ACPI device does not appear on machines that need those additional > functions. > E.g. the asus driver AFAIK serves exactly the ACPI device it registers > for. and the sony-laptop as well. Thanks for doing that, will test as soon as possible on my vaios here. -- mattia :wq! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/