On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 23:00 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> writes: > > > Am Sonntag, 11. März 2012 schrieb Marco d'Itri: > >> On Mar 11, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > >> > So please advice. Is it sufficient for ask for module aliases being > >> > added upstream? If I know how I can provide the necessary info for > >> > my ThinkPad T520. > >> > >> I am not familiar with ExpressCard, so I do not know exactly what is > >> needed. > > > > No problem. Maybe someone from the Debian kernel team knows. If not I can > > also ask upstream. > > The issue has already been discussed among the upstream experts. See e.g. > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg11140.html > for an explanation why autoloading acpiphp on all machines historically > has been impossible. > > Don't know if anything ever came out of this though: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg11148.html > > If not, then I guess a distribution could add an init script which > checked DMI dates and loaded acpiphp by default on all modern machines. > It's a pity that users have to research this themselves to get > ExpressCard slots working. We should build in whichever hotplug drivers can't be auto-loaded. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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