Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: recognize Lenovo asversion string in newer V-series BIOS

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 23:28:47 EST


On Fri, 09 Mar 2012, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> The newer V series bios reports product version as 'Lenovo'
> instead of 'ThinkPad'. Recoginze this new string so that
> the module can load.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index ea0c607..d68c000 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -8658,7 +8658,7 @@ static int __must_check __init get_thinkpad_model_data(
> }
>
> s = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION);
> - if (s && !strnicmp(s, "ThinkPad", 8)) {
> + if (s && !(strnicmp(s, "ThinkPad", 8) && strnicmp(s, "Lenovo", 6))) {
> tp->model_str = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!tp->model_str)
> return -ENOMEM;

So far so good, but what driver functionality works well in these new
lenovo boxes?

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Henrique Holschuh
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