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Subject: Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:33 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:33 -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to detect that this device is present (PCI, ACPI, etc.) 
> > without poking at ports?
> 
> Not that we've been able to tell.  It is a legacy platform device.
> 
> So, unfortunately, no probe() routine.

dmi surely....