On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:30:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I always get stuff like this coming out when I boot my x86_64 machine: > > asus_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_unregister > asus_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_register > ibm_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_unregister > ibm_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_register > toshiba_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_unregister > toshiba_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_register > video: Unknown symbol backlight_device_unregister > video: Unknown symbol backlight_device_register > > This is a nocoma server, not a laptop. I'm not sure how those modules are > even getting loaded. The distro is FC4, which might be doing something > peculiar. I covered this on the list last week. There's no way to have a module autoload based on dmi strings or the like, (Which is the only sane way these modules can determine if they need to run). Given the absense of mechanism, there's a pretty gross hack in Fedora's rc.sysinit which loads every module in drivers/acpi/*/* that it finds. Shameful I know. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
