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*	DMI-based module autoloading	Lennart Poettering	2007-07-11	1	-0/+9
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	The patch below adds DMI/SMBIOS based module autoloading to the Linux kernel. The idea is to load laptop drivers automatically (and other drivers which cannot be autoloaded otherwise), based on the DMI system identification information of the BIOS. Right now most distros manually try to load all available laptop drivers on bootup in the hope that at least one of them loads successfully. This patch does away with all that, and uses udev to automatically load matching drivers on the right machines. Basically the patch just exports the DMI information that has been parsed by the kernel anyway to userspace via a sysfs device /sys/class/dmi/id and makes sure that proper modalias attributes are available. Besides adding the "modalias" attribute it also adds attributes for a few other DMI fields which might be useful for writing udev rules. This patch is not an attempt to export the entire DMI/SMBIOS data to userspace. We already have "dmidecode" which parses the complete DMI info from userspace. The purpose of this patch is machine model identification and good udev integration. To take advantage of DMI based module autoloading, a driver should export one or more MODULE_ALIAS fields similar to these: MODULE_ALIAS("dmi::svnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:pnMS-1013:pvr0131:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:"); MODULE_ALIAS("dmi::svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1058:pvr0581:rvnMSI:rnMS-1058::ct10:"); MODULE_ALIAS("dmi::svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1412::rvnMSI:rnMS-1412::cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:"); MODULE_ALIAS("dmi::svnNOTEBOOK:pnSAM2000:pvr0131:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*"); These lines are specific to my msi-laptop.c driver. They are basically just a concatenation of a few carefully selected DMI fields with all potentially bad characters stripped. Besides laptop drivers, modules like "hdaps", the i2c modules and the hwmon modules are good candidates for "dmi:" MODULE_ALIAS lines. Besides merely exporting the DMI data via sysfs the patch adds support for a few more DMI fields. Especially the CHASSIS fields are very useful to identify different laptop modules. The patch also adds working MODULE_ALIAS lines to my msi-laptop.c driver. I'd like to thank Kay Sievers for helping me to clean up this patch for posting it on lkml. Patch is against Linus' current GIT HEAD. Should probably apply to older kernels as well without modification. Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	Fix several typos in drivers/	Matt LaPlante	2006-10-03	1	-1/+1
\| \| \| \|	Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
*	[PATCH] EDD isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore	Chris Wedgwood	2006-06-25	1	-2/+1
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Lots of people use this. Apparently RH has for over 18 months so lets drop EXPERIMENTAL. Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64]	Dave Jones	2005-11-22	1	-0/+1
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	This driver only appears on IA32 & EM64T boxes. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] Don't set dcdbas driver to default m	Andi Kleen	2005-10-30	1	-1/+0
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	It's nasty to set random drivers to default m because people who just press enter on make oldconfig get these. Remove the default m Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] CONFIG_IA32	Brian Gerst	2005-10-30	1	-1/+1
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply to 32-bit systems. (X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32 (X86 \|\| X86_64) becomes X86 Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] dcdbas: add Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support	Doug Warzecha	2005-09-07	1	-0/+18
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support. This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage. Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] dell_rbu: new Dell BIOS update driver	Abhay Salunke	2005-09-07	1	-0/+9
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Remote BIOS Update driver for updating BIOS images on Dell servers and desktops. See dell_rbu.txt for details. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	2005-04-16	1	-0/+61
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!