Mark Brown wrote: > Desktop Management Interface, a standard BIOS interface for getting > system data on x86 class hardware. Of particular interest here is the > fact that it contains various ID strings for things like motherboard and > chassis - on Linux drivers can be automatically loaded based on these > strings. See drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c for an example of a driver > that does this. The only problem with this is that the OF probing code in the kernel binds drivers to device tree nodes. So when a driver claims a node, no other driver will be probed with it. So we can't have generic nodes that classify the motherboard and just let everyone get probed on it. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
