From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anisse Astier Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86 platform drivers, wmi: Remove needless dmi MODULE_ALIAS Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:44:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20091218184458.464be49c@destiny.ordissimo> References: <1261146563-2228-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:39125 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932354AbZLRRs6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:48:58 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1739999ewy.21 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:48:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1261146563-2228-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: lenb@kernel.org, Thomas Renninger , Carlos Corbacho , Matthew Garrett , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:29:22 +0100, Thomas Renninger 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 Regards, Anisse