On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:40 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > We won't have such issues if we make ACPI use driver model. > I've sent out a patch series which throw the legacy ACPI driver model > away. The patches will be added to -mm tree. > > On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 00:55 +0800, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > acpi_bus_register_driver must return -ENODEV when no device with > > > matching HID was found. E.g. battery also should currently get > > always > > > loaded even a system never has one. > > > > If the driver wants to unload if it doesn't find any devices, > > it can easily do so by counting calls to its add() method, as > > asus_acpi.c currently does. I don't think that's a good long- > > term solution, though. I think it would be better to have a > > hotplug scheme that loads the driver when the hardware is > > found, like we do for PCI. > > > that's true. With this patch series, .uevent method of ACPI bus will be > called when an ACPI device is found. Then udev script loads the right > driver by checking hid/cid offered by .uevent method.
That are great news. Maybe you can CC linux-acpi list on further patches, I didn't know about this. I am looking forward to give these a try as soon as I get some time... Thanks, Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
