From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753515AbZHCKxx (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:53:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753178AbZHCKxw (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:53:52 -0400 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 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Phmw8oyUKkzvGozB3kDnaFbaRgTMfnSkkf4WHHGwJzfoTzY2pN1M1/rYknkeU4dF7b O0M5lrXE9zksVcy9DQvsc29uMa9ucRCMLtAasY9hkr+ZVXsT5yk2TxNo0vMLRYu9DNxZ thBkfw2o7kdMgJoAY3SrtB2p9EBUR1vX6/I54= Message-ID: <4A76C1B8.6080000@tuffmail.co.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:53:44 +0100 From: Alan Jenkins User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carlos Corbacho CC: linux acpi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: WMI module autoloading (for hp-wmi, dell-wmi, tc1100-wmi) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: 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