Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86 platform drivers, wmi: Remove needless dmi MODULE_ALIAS

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On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:29:22 +0100, Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote :

> wmi autoloading came in, so the dmi matching for autoloading
> is not needed anymore.
> 

For this to work properly you need to have wmi built in your kernel, or have
your distribution load the wmi module. Maybe there should be some kind of
auto-loading for the wmi subsystem (acpi-based?).

Anyway, that's out of the scope of this patch, which was the plan all-along.

FWIW, and for msi-wmi :
Acked-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@xxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

Anisse
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