Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers.

Len Brown
2007-07-03T07:15:52Z

> BTW: I also saw a laptop (IIRC it was a sony) with asus and sony ACPI
> device.
> When both drivers got loaded things broke.
> A solution was to only let the asus driver get active if the device is
> known. Currently, not sure whether still (I sent a patch a while ago),
> the Asus driver falls back to a default ("M6N"?) configuration. IMO this
> is a bit too dangerous and instead a message like "unsupported ASUS
> model found, please send acpidump to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org".

This is pretty scary.
Can you drop the acpidump output into a bugzilla?

thanks,
-Len