RE: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver

From: Yu, Luming
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 03:39:20 EST



>Yu, Luming wrote:
>>>If your laptop provides the hotkey events via ACPI, simply don't use
>>>wistron_btns.
>>
>>
>> wistron driver should be disabled if acpi hotkey enabled.
>It is implicitly disabled because it contains DMI ids of known laptops,
>and its module_init() fails with -ENODEV when used on other hardware,
>before ever touching the BIOS.
>
>I therefore can't see how it could break anything unless you have
>explicitly supplied module parameters to override this check.
> Mirek
>
My concern is if ACPI enabled those box could NOT work with Wistron
driver.
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