Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757956AbYFIADu (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:03:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754574AbYFIADn (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:03:43 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:56925 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754531AbYFIADn (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:03:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:03:39 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Lennart Poettering Cc: rpurdie@rpsys.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros Message-ID: <20080609000339.GA28756@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20080607025436.GB24254@srcf.ucam.org> <20080608183255.GB3580@tango.0pointer.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080608183255.GB3580@tango.0pointer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 18 On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 08:32:55PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > It should be pretty easy to figure out the right string for > DMI autoloading. Just do a cat /sys/class/dmi/id/modalias and replace the > part of the string you consider not very useful for identifying the > machine with (dates, version numbers, empty strings, 0123456 > rubbish data, ...) with an asterisk. Ah! Spaces are removed in the sysfs interface. That would explain the problem. I'll send a new version. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- 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/