Commit 6e17cb12 authored Mar 01, 2015 by Chris Wilson Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki Mar 04, 2015

ACPI / video: Load the module even if ACPI is disabled



i915.ko depends upon the acpi/video.ko module and so refuses to load if
ACPI is disabled at runtime if for example the BIOS is broken beyond
repair. acpi/video provides an optional service for i915.ko and so we
should just allow the modules to load, but do no nothing in order to let
the machines boot correctly.

Reported-by: Bill Augur <bill-auger@programmer.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
[ rjw: Fixed up the new comment in acpi_video_init() ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

parent 13a7a6ac

drivers/acpi/video.c

+11 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2176,6 +2176,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_unregister_backlight);

		static int __init acpi_video_init(void)
		{
		/*
		* Let the module load even if ACPI is disabled (e.g. due to
		* a broken BIOS) so that i915.ko can still be loaded on such
		* old systems without an AcpiOpRegion.
		*
		* acpi_video_register() will report -ENODEV later as well due
		* to acpi_disabled when i915.ko tries to register itself afterwards.
		*/
		if (acpi_disabled)
		return 0;

		dmi_check_system(video_dmi_table);

		if (intel_opregion_present())

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