Commit 44304628 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson Committed by Ben Hutchings

ACPI / video: Load the module even if ACPI is disabled

commit 6e17cb12 upstream.

i915.ko depends upon the acpi/video.ko module and so refuses to load if
ACPI is disabled at runtime if for example the BIOS is broken beyond
repair. acpi/video provides an optional service for i915.ko and so we
should just allow the modules to load, but do no nothing in order to let
the machines boot correctly.
Reported-by: default avatarBill Augur <bill-auger@programmer.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
[ rjw: Fixed up the new comment in acpi_video_init() ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 7c35cf6b
......@@ -1854,6 +1854,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_unregister);
static int __init acpi_video_init(void)
{
/*
* Let the module load even if ACPI is disabled (e.g. due to
* a broken BIOS) so that i915.ko can still be loaded on such
* old systems without an AcpiOpRegion.
*
* acpi_video_register() will report -ENODEV later as well due
* to acpi_disabled when i915.ko tries to register itself afterwards.
*/
if (acpi_disabled)
return 0;
dmi_check_system(video_dmi_table);
if (intel_opregion_present())
......
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