From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:08:34 +0000 (-0300) Subject: ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve thinkpad detection X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~1112^2~5^2~29 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0dcef77c5b889338811d35e786b42046259fe433;p=pandora-kernel.git ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve thinkpad detection Improve the detection of ThinkPads, so as to reduce the chances of false positives. Since this could potentially add false negatives on the very old models, add a module parameter to force the detection of a thinkpad. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt index 20d5ec309cbd..1a42b77e2ece 100644 --- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -716,3 +716,10 @@ to enable more than one output class, just add their values. There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems. + +Force loading of module +----------------------- + +If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify +the module parameter force_load=1. Regardless of whether this works or +not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report. Reading git-diff-tree failed