asus_acpi should fail on unsupported models. There has been an upstream change that implements this, which seems to be applicable to the lenny kernel.
Ben.
commit 7745384080ef70f7710530afa3e45477b126e056
Author: Zhang Rui <rui.zh...@intel.com>
Date: Fri Oct 17 01:42:41 2008 -0400
don't load asus-acpi if model is not supported
asus_hotk_get_info should return -ENODEV if the model is not supported.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10389
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zh...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
index 91571fc..428e47b 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
@@ -1244,6 +1244,8 @@ static int asus_hotk_get_info(void)
"default values\n", string);
printk(KERN_NOTICE
" send /proc/acpi/dsdt to the developers\n");
+ kfree(model);
+ return -ENODEV;
}
hotk->methods = &model_conf[hotk->model];
return AE_OK;
--- END ---
--
Ben Hutchings
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