Re: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver

Yu, Luming wrote:
>>If your laptop provides the hotkey events via ACPI, simply don't use
>>wistron_btns.
> 
> 
> wistron driver should be disabled if acpi hotkey enabled.
It is implicitly disabled because it contains DMI ids of known laptops,
and its module_init() fails with -ENODEV when used on other hardware,
before ever touching the BIOS.

I therefore can't see how it could break anything unless you have
explicitly supplied module parameters to override this check.
	Mirek
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