[PATCH] [Maverick SRU, Natty] Dell All-In-One: Remove need for Dell module alias
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Mon Feb 14 19:22:49 UTC 2011
On 02/14/2011 08:04 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> SRU request (and request for inclusion to Natty)
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/718775
>
> Impact: Dell All-In-One driver was using an old workaround to load the
> module based on a Dell module alias. Since the wmi sysfs interface now
> supports WMI GUID module aliases we should be using this instead.
>
> Fix: Remove Dell dmi module alias since WMI GUID module alias works.
>
> Testcase: With the fix, the driver will only load for hardware with
> matching WMI GUIDs.
>
> Note: The original driver + this small fix was sent for upstream inclusion today.
>
> Colin Ian King (1):
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: Dell All-In-One: Remove need for Dell module alias
>
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-aio.c | 6 +-----
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>
Applied to Maverick. Don't forget the SRU administrivia in the bug report.
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