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 -- 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