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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, burman.yan@gmail.com,
	rpurdie@rpsys.net, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: leds-hp-disk vs lis3lv02d
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:40:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081026174023.GA1847@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4902F817.4050108@tremplin-utc.net>

Hi!

> >> shouldn't this one be integrated into Eric's/Yan's driver?
> > 
> > It is separate piece of hardware, completely unrelated to lids3v
> > chip. No, it should not be integrated, but I'll makesure they work
> > toggether well.
> Hello,
> I think I talked too fast: it seems impossible to have both drivers
> (leds-hp-disk and lis3lv02d) working at the same time. Only the first
> driver loaded is used.
> 
> After a little look at it, I think it comes from the fact that both
> drivers are assigned to the same MODALIAS (HPQ0004). The ACPI PNP
> (through the generic bus infrastructure) only declare the device to one
> of the drivers supporting it, not all of them.

I can reproduce it here and it obviously needs fixing. OTOH  it should
not block merge; both drivers still work and are useful.

> How can I tell to ACPI that it should load both drivers for the same PNP
> ID match?

I'll take a look if I can figure something out...

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-27  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-16 22:55 + leds-driver-for-hp-harddisk-protection-led.patch added to -mm tree akpm
     [not found] ` <200810192106.15905.trenn@suse.de>
     [not found]   ` <20081019204819.GC1465@ucw.cz>
2008-10-25 10:42     ` leds-hp-disk vs lis3lv02d Eric Piel
2008-10-26 17:40       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-10-27 12:45         ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-27 12:58           ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-27 13:03           ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-06 12:14           ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-06 21:45             ` Éric Piel
2008-11-06 22:22               ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 23:00       ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-10 11:59       ` Pavel Machek

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