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.
applied to-akpm
shipped in 2.6.13-git9. closing.