Stefan Richter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Jesse Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>diff -X linux-2.6.14-rc2/Documentation/dontdiff -Naur linux-2.6.14-rc2.orig/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c linux-2.6.14-rc2/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
> >>--- linux-2.6.14-rc2.orig/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c 2005-09-19 20:00:41.000000000 -0700
> >>+++ linux-2.6.14-rc2/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c 2005-10-15 12:55:08.000000000 -0700
> [...]
> >>+module_param(toshiba, bool, 0);
> >>+MODULE_PARM_DESC(toshiba, "Toshiba Legacy-Free BIOS workaround (default=0).");
> [...]
> > It would be really really preferable if we could find some automatic way of
> > doing this.
>
> I agree.
>
> > Is it possible to use DMI matching, like
> > arch/i386/kernel/acpi/sleep.c:acpisleep_dmi_table ?
>
> Earlier forms of the patch do DMI matching:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux1394-devel&m=110790513206094
> http://www.janerob.com/rob/ts5100/tosh-1394.patch
> [short-circuited by if (1) at the second URL]
Rob, can you finish that patch off and send it?
> Of course we don't have a complete picture of which models are affected
> though.
I suppose we could do both. As people are found who need the module
parameter, we grab their DMI strings and add them to the table?
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