From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Jenkins Subject: WMI module autoloading (for hp-wmi, dell-wmi, tc1100-wmi) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:53:44 +0100 Message-ID: <4A76C1B8.6080000@tuffmail.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f214.google.com ([209.85.219.214]:37605 "EHLO mail-ew0-f214.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752318AbZHCKxv (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:53:51 -0400 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Carlos Corbacho Cc: linux acpi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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