Re: Reassigning Bug#271814: who has to load acpi modules?
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:08:19PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Mattia Dongili <dongili@supereva.it> wrote:
Oh! sorry, the following quoted text is from the original bug submitter
not from me... I made some confusion forwarding the message :P
> > Discover or hotplug doesn't load ACPI modules and I'm trying to keep my
> > /etc/modules minimal. Standard user would rather have ACPI modules
> > loaded automagically. So who should load them then? I don't think it up
> > to user, in that case, it would be huge usability regression.
>
> It's not only nice, it's necessary. If an acpi-enabled kernel is used,
> failing to load the thermal and fan modules may result in hardware
> damage.
--
mattia
:wq!
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