On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:26:56PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Dave Jones (davej@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Nnngh.. This driver doesn't have export anything useful like PCI IDs to > > make autoloading easy. Its init routine does checking of DMI tables > > to make it only load on specific laptops. (Which is actually quite > > sensible). > > > > Short of adding a script to call dmidecode to modprobe if necessary, > > I can't think of a clean way of doing this. > > Perhaps just making it built-in instead of modular is the best option, > > at least for now in FC6 and previous. > > Can't we add modaliases for DMI data, and have the kernel export that? Sure. We could. Needs someone to write the bits for module-init-tools to parse them based on the dmi of the running system too though. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
