thinkpad-acpi: fix detection of old ThinkPads
commit98a81cf863bbb9098bf008761827d7565a5e39a4
authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:52:11 +0000 (14 00:52 -0200)
committerHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:52:11 +0000 (14 00:52 -0200)
tree9d0d44f2f3de184b44b49d8b602d667a33ceec9d
parentb962f72506fb91bcae3fa66f08f7241761201f31
thinkpad-acpi: fix detection of old ThinkPads

There is a problem in the quirk tables used by tpacpi_is_fw_known()
and tpacpi_check_outdated_fw(), which causes outdated BIOSes that are
lacking the EC firmware ID DMI field to never match.

This breaks module loading on, e.g. a T23 with outdated BIOS, and the
module will refuse to load unless the "force_load=1" parameter is
given.

Fix the quirk tables so that they can also match the outdated BIOSes,
which in turn will both fix the module loading, and also warn the user
that he is using outdated firmware and should upgrade.

This fixes a serious regression, introduced by commit
e675abafcc0df38125e6e94a9ba91c92fe774f52,
"thinkpad-acpi: be more strict when detecting a ThinkPad".

Tracked by bugzilla #14597.

Reported-by: Paul Kimoto <kimoto@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Tested-by: Paul Kimoto <kimoto@lightlink.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c