On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:26:56PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dave Jones (davej(a)redhat.com) said:
> Nnngh.. This driver doesn't have export anything useful like PCI IDs to
> make autoloading easy. Its init routine does checking of DMI tables
> to make it only load on specific laptops. (Which is actually quite
> sensible).
>
> Short of adding a script to call dmidecode to modprobe if necessary,
> I can't think of a clean way of doing this.
> Perhaps just making it built-in instead of modular is the best option,
> at least for now in FC6 and previous.
Can't we add modaliases for DMI data, and have the kernel export that?
Sure. We could. Needs someone to write the bits for module-init-tools
to parse them based on the dmi of the running system too though.
Dave
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