On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 02:22:34PM +0530, Jay Aurabind wrote: > The subject line might be a bit dramatic, but I assure you my question is > isn't. > > I have a 3-axis accelerometer (LIS3LV02DL) in my laptop which shows up as > an input device. Since its x86, I am assuming the necessary information was > encoded in ACPI Tables. But I cannot find any mention of this device in the > acpi tables exposed by the kernel. > > I tried grepping through all the ACPI tables in /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. > I was hoping to find some string that could identify the corresponding > kernel drivers. But there are no hits for "lis". I suppose string based > literals are not the way acpi works like in kernel device-driver matching. > The driver in question is drivers/misc/lis3lv02d/lis3lv02d.c > > So what exactly in the ACPI triggered the kernel module lis3lv02d to be > loaded ? It seems to me this is an I2C device so the following alias could load it: modules.alias:alias i2c:lis3lv02d lis3lv02d_i2c -- Valentin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
