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

[Len Brown]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> 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.

revised patch (with commit log from 1st patch) applied.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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