Laptop Hotkey Support [PSARC/2009/016 FastTrack timeout 01/16/2009]

[James Carlson]

Kerry Shu writes:
> 
> 
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
> > How does acpi_drv determine which vendor specific module to load ?  What 
> 
> acpi_drv will try to load all known vendor specific modules. Once one
> module is loaded successfully, it's believed a vendor specific module
> is found and function.

How exactly does the system know which module works on a given system?

Are these modules expected to test for platform compatibility by
probing around in the module's _init(9E) function?

Or are users supposed to determine which module is right for their
system and install only that one?

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