From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758383AbXGCHQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 03:16:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756035AbXGCHPy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 03:15:54 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:45751 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756013AbXGCHPw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 03:15:52 -0400 From: Len Brown Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center To: trenn@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers. Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 03:15:33 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Mattia Dongili , linux-kernel , linux-acpi , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , acpi4asus-user References: <1182112047.4204.12.camel@noname> <20070620170617.GA3226@inferi.kami.home> <1182361643.28514.708.camel@queen.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1182361643.28514.708.camel@queen.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707030315.33526.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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