Re: [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: fix module autoloading for older models

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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 04:14:19PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:42, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
> > <mchouque@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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]");
> > 
> > Aliases are shell-style globs. Any idea what the ',' are doing in a
> > character class? Confused ...
> 
> Good point...  I guess it's a typo: perhaps the original authors thought
> of it as a brace expansion?  Something like 1{0,3,6,...}?

I bet that's exactly what happened...  it was a long time ago, so I don't
recall exactly what I was (not) thinking about when I did it.

Thanks for noticing this, and the revised patch looks good.

> A proper patch would then be:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@xxxxxxx>
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c |    8 ++++----
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index bcbc051..d243320 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -7532,7 +7532,7 @@ 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:*");
> @@ -7541,9 +7541,9 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:bvnLENOVO:*:svnLENOVO:*:pvrThinkPad*:rvnLENOVO:*");
>  /* Ancient thinkpad BIOSes have to be identified by
>   * BIOS type or model number, and there are far less
>   * BIOS types than model numbers... */
> -IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS("I[B,D,H,I,M,N,O,T,W,V,Y,Z]");
> -IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS("1[0,3,6,8,A-G,I,K,M-P,S,T]");
> -IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS("K[U,X-Z]");
> +IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS("I[BDHIMNOTWVYZ]");
> +IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS("1[0368A-GIKM-PST]");
> +IBM_BIOS_MODULE_ALIAS("K[UX-Z]");
>  
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Borislav Deianov, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION(TPACPI_DESC);

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