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From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: linux acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: WMI module autoloading (for hp-wmi, dell-wmi, tc1100-wmi)
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:53:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A76C1B8.6080000@tuffmail.co.uk> (raw)

Hi

I believe you had a patch to add support for auto-loading of wmi
modules.  But it stalled because it also added a userspace interface to
WMI in sysfs, which didn't fit very well.

So at the moment, only acer-wmi is autoloaded, because it has a DMI
autoload hack.  hp-wmi, dell-wmi, and tc1100-wmi are out of luck, even
though a second DMI hack was proposed for dell-wmi.

Would it be possible to add the auto-load support on it's own?  Is it
just a matter of someone taking the time to cherry-pick the auto-loading
bits from the original patch, and test the result?

Thanks
Alan

             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-03 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-03 10:53 Alan Jenkins [this message]
2009-08-03 19:08 ` WMI module autoloading (for hp-wmi, dell-wmi, tc1100-wmi) Carlos Corbacho

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