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| author | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> | 2007-04-21 16:08:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-04-22 05:30:34 +0200 |
| commit | 0dcef77c5b889338811d35e786b42046259fe433 (patch) | |
| tree | 05c66f57eb7b3b73a81d3503a71f7b01a96d4f51 /Documentation | |
| parent | ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: uncouple subdriver init from ibms struct (diff) | |
| download | linux-0dcef77c5b889338811d35e786b42046259fe433.tar.xz linux-0dcef77c5b889338811d35e786b42046259fe433.zip | |
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 <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
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. |