[Debian-eeepc-devel] [PATCH] Load eeepc_laptop and set SHEngine in background

[Darren Salt]

I demand that I definitely did write...

> I demand that Luca Niccoli may or may not have written...
>> The attached patch sets adds a line to /etc/modprobe.d/eeepc.conf to make
>> modprobe fork to background while loading eeepc_laptop, and modifies the
>> init script accordingly to wait for it to be loaded. It also makes the
>> init script do the SHEngine setting in background, as that is very slow.
> [snip]

> Looks good to me.

Well... almost; I was a bit too quick with that.

The loading could safely be done a bit later (just after "Loading EeePC
support modules"); there's no point in even trying to load it if
/sys/bus/platform/devices/eeepc is already present; and the load_module
function is useable since modprobe will happily work with switches after the
module name (try "modprobe eeepc_laptop -r").

I'll deal with this, though.

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