[PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: Load dell-wmi on Dell systems

[Mario Limonciello]

Hi:

Until the sysfs WMI interface is ready, there is no way to automatically determine when to load dell-wmi.  The equivalent module for Acer laptops, acer-wmi has a workaround in place to match on the DMI tables for the machine.  This type of solution works on for Dell as well and gets the module loading when necessary.

Upstream is not in favor of applying this patch, but rather waiting for the sysfs interface to be ready.  Until it is, this provides a solution to ensure machines that support WMI hotkeys are functional.

Patch is attached to prevent Exchange messing up line breaks.

Regards

-- 
Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
mario_limonciello at dell.com
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