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

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

	Hello Linus,

Looks like this one liner patch never made it...  Hopefully, it'll go in
before you release rc9 or 2.6.29.

Best,
Mathieu

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	Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@xxxxxxx>, stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: fix module autoloading for older models
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:25:51 -0300
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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


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