Bug 250440 - hal needs to load dcdbas kernel module on Dell systems
Summary: hal needs to load dcdbas kernel module on Dell systems
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 248257
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-01 16:29 UTC by Matt Domsch
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-06 19:18:38 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
dell.modules (154 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2007-08-01 16:29 UTC, Matt Domsch
no flags Details

Description Matt Domsch 2007-08-01 16:29:00 UTC
Description of problem:
hal doesn't load the dcdbas kernel module automatically.  This causes continuous
syslog error messages:

NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError - AN error occurred.  The error message
is: #012 Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data.  Check that
dcdbas driver is properly loaded.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hal-0.5.9-8.fc7

How reproducible:
always on Dell laptops

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start networkmanager
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
errors seen in syslog

Expected results:
no errors

Additional info:
Attachment dell.modules can be dropped into /etc/sysconfig/modules/ to be
automatically loaded by initscripts.  This stops such error messages.

Comment 1 Matt Domsch 2007-08-01 16:29:01 UTC
Created attachment 160428 [details]
dell.modules

Comment 2 David Zeuthen 2007-08-01 18:55:37 UTC
Actually I would say that libsmbios should insmod dcdbas itself and/or drop that
file into /etc/sysconfig/modules. Much like e.g. mount(1) loads file-system
drivers when needed. Or how losetup loads loop.ko when needed.

Anyway this is all moot, since DMI modalias support is landing / has landed in
recent Linux kernels. I believe dcdbas should just export modalias to make this
load automatically as part of the boot process.

Hence, reassigning to the kernel to make sure we do that.



Comment 3 Dave Jones 2007-08-06 19:18:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248257 ***


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