This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dell-laptop: Add another Dell laptop family to the DMI whitelist
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dell-laptop-add-another-dell-laptop-family-to-the-dm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From bfc51e7c9a0e42dcb7e6203bbc501fbbec755eb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rezwanul Kabir <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:02:43 -0500
Subject: dell-laptop: Add another Dell laptop family to the DMI whitelist
From: Rezwanul Kabir <[email protected]>
commit 410d44c74cf9942e3055d5b7d73953fac8efbacb upstream.
This is to support Precision M4500 and others.
Signed-off-by: Rezwanul Kabir <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __init
},
},
{
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE, "9"), /*Laptop*/
+ },
+ },
+ {
.ident = "Dell Computer Corporation",
.matches = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Computer Corporation"),
@@ -404,4 +410,5 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Matthew Garrett <mjg@redh
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Dell laptop driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*svnDellInc.:*:ct8:*");
+MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*svnDellInc.:*:ct9:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*svnDellComputerCorporation.:*:ct8:*");
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from
[email protected] are
/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/dell-laptop-add-another-dell-laptop-family-to-the-dm.patch
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