applied
thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@xxxxxxx>
>
> Looking at the source, there seems to be a missing * to match my DMI
> string. I mean for newer IBM and Lenovo's laptops you match either one
> of the following:
> MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:bvnIBM:*:svnIBM:*:pvrThinkPad*:rvnIBM:*");
> MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:bvnLENOVO:*:svnLENOVO:*:pvrThinkPad*:rvnLENOVO:*");
>
> While for older Thinkpads, you do this (for instance):
> IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS("1[0,3,6,8,A-G,I,K,M-P,S,T]");
>
> with IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS being MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:bvnIBM:bvr" __type "ET??WW")
>
> Note there's no * terminating the string. As result, udev doesn't load
> anything because modprobe cannot find anything matching this (my
> machine actually):
>
> udevtest: run: '/sbin/modprobe dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1IET71WW(2.10):bd06/16/2006:svnIBM:pn236621U:pvrNotAvailable:rvnIBM:rn236621U:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:'
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
> Len, please consider this for 2.6.29. It is an obvious one-liner.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index 91ae159..d218ecb 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -7524,7 +7524,7 @@ MODULE_ALIAS(TPACPI_DRVR_SHORTNAME);
> * if it is not there yet.
> */
> #define IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS(__type) \
> - MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:bvnIBM:bvr" __type "ET??WW")
> + MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:bvnIBM:bvr" __type "ET??WW*")
>
> /* Non-ancient thinkpads */
> MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:bvnIBM:*:svnIBM:*:pvrThinkPad*:rvnIBM:*");
> --
> 1.5.6.5
>
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