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From: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
To: "Ian E. Morgan" <penguin.wrangler@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: acerhdf: BIOS product mismatch due to whitespace
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:28:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cone.1260102503.848391.3159.1000@onepiie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a6e8c0d0912052133v3e112bdbx2c95b17437bdd182@mail.gmail.com>

Ian E. Morgan writes:

> Peter,
> 
> Having just upgraded my AOA150 to 2.6.32, acerhdf was complaining:
> 
> acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.18
> acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer/AOA150
> /v0.3310, please report, aborting!
> 
> DMI reports the product as "AOA150         " (i.e. 9 spaces after the
> 6-character model name). This causes the product match to fail, so I
> had to use force_product="AOA150".
> 
> acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.18
> acerhdf: forcing BIOS product: AOA150
> 
> Then all was happy again. Any chance you could strip leading/trailing
> whitespace in the product match to avoid this issue?

Hi Ian,

thanks for reporting, will take care about this issue.

kind regards,
--peter


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-06 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-06  5:33 Ian E. Morgan
2009-12-06 12:28 ` Peter Feuerer [this message]
2009-12-06 14:37 ` Peter Feuerer
2009-12-06 15:12   ` Ian E. Morgan
2009-12-06 21:09     ` Peter Feuerer

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