[lucid-SRU][PATCH 1/2] UBUNTU: dell-laptop: Add another Dell laptop family to the DMI whitelist

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Tue Jan 25 10:57:28 UTC 2011


On 01/25/2011 01:05 AM, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> From 51c14ac91eedd75f9fbf8a2da4fb67964a52ae1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Erik Andren <erik.andren at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:53:23 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] dell-laptop: Add another Dell laptop to the DMI whitelist
> 
> The Latitude C640 has another variation of dell in its DMI vendor entry.
> Add it to the whitelist in order to enjoy the sweet fruits of software
> backlight toggling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Andren <erik.andren at gmail.com>
> (cherry picked from commit cb6a7937f4328a267e0806680ade500ed2c3c01a)
> 
> Bring Dell DMI table up-to-date for...
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693078
> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c |    8 ++++++++
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> index a224f49..6c2e1bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __initdata dell_device_table[] = {
>  			DMI_MATCH(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE, "8"),
>  		},
>  	},
> +	{
> +		.ident = "Dell Computer Corporation",
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Computer Corporation"),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE, "8"),
> +		},
> +	},
>  	{ }
>  };
>  
> @@ -603,3 +610,4 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Dell laptop driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*svnDellInc.:*:ct8:*");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*svnDellComputerCorporation.:*:ct8:*");
> 





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