[ltp] T60p: thinkpad_acpi automatic module loading

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:03:23 -0300


On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Then, I need to know whether the expected aliases are present in sysfs,
> autoloading happens when something in sysfs declares an attribute "modalias"
> whose contents are present in the "alias" fields of a module.

Ah, and you need the depmod-generated stuff to be current.  That's where the
alias fields of the modules end up indexed.  So, check whether the alias
fields of thinkpad-acpi are present on
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/modules.alias.

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