From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754874AbXJ2VfJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:35:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752173AbXJ2Ve5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:34:57 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:57971 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752093AbXJ2Ve4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:34:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:34:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Matt Domsch Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@suse.de, Michael_E_Brown@dell.com, zoz@suse.de, dkukawka@suse.de, trenn@suse.de, Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com, Anil_Rao@dell.com, davej@redhat.com, davidz@redhat.com, ben.collins@ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcdbas: add DMI-based module autloading Message-Id: <20071029143434.a87fe371.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071029212514.GA1328@humbolt.us.dell.com> References: <20071029212514.GA1328@humbolt.us.dell.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:25:15 -0500 Matt Domsch wrote: > DMI autoload dcdbas on all Dell systems. > > This looks for BIOS Vendor or System Vendor == Dell, so this should > work for systems both Dell-branded and those Dell builds but brands > for others. It causes udev to load the dcdbas module at startup, > which is used by tools called by HAL for wireless control and > backlight control, among other uses. fyi, I added this to the 2.6.25 queue. If you think a patch should go into 2.6.24 then it is best to explicitly say that and to explain why.