From: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org, Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86 platform drivers, wmi: Remove needless dmi MODULE_ALIAS
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:44:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091218184458.464be49c@destiny.ordissimo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261146563-2228-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:29:22 +0100, Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote :
> wmi autoloading came in, so the dmi matching for autoloading
> is not needed anymore.
>
For this to work properly you need to have wmi built in your kernel, or have
your distribution load the wmi module. Maybe there should be some kind of
auto-loading for the wmi subsystem (acpi-based?).
Anyway, that's out of the scope of this patch, which was the plan all-along.
FWIW, and for msi-wmi :
Acked-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Regards,
Anisse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 14:29 [PATCH 1/2] x86 platform drivers, wmi: Remove needless dmi MODULE_ALIAS Thomas Renninger
2009-12-18 14:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86 platform drivers, hp-wmi: Fix two memleaks Thomas Renninger
2009-12-24 5:56 ` Len Brown
2009-12-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86 platform drivers, wmi: Remove needless dmi MODULE_ALIAS Carlos Corbacho
2009-12-18 17:44 ` Anisse Astier [this message]
2009-12-18 17:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-12-20 20:15 ` Anisse Astier
2009-12-24 5:50 ` Len Brown
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