Bug 4903

Summary: Documentation fix for acpi-hotkey.txt
Product: Drivers Reporter: Iacopo Spalletti (avvisi)
Component: PlatformAssignee: acpi_other
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: acpi-bugzilla
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.13-rc3 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:

Description Iacopo Spalletti 2005-07-17 02:06:42 UTC
A note should be added to acpi-hotkey.txt to mention kernel parameter to enable
platform specific acpi modules.

Below a little patch reporting Changelog note by Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>


--- Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt.orig  2005-07-17 11:00:54.787351500 +0200
+++ Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt       2005-07-17 11:03:16.304195750 +0200
@@ -33,3 +33,6 @@
 attached to /proc/acpi/hotkey/poll_method, which is dnyamically
 created.  Please use command "cat /proc/acpi/hotkey/polling_method"
 to retrieve it.
+
+Note: Use cmdline "acpi_specific_hotkey" to enable legacy platform
+ specific drivers.
Comment 1 Len Brown 2005-07-29 14:39:04 UTC
applied to-akpm
Comment 2 Len Brown 2005-09-09 09:13:23 UTC
shipped in 2.6.13-git9.
closing.